TRADE WITH AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1105, 19 April 1911, Page 4

TRADE WITH AMERICA.

OVERTURES FROM 'FRISCO. Mr. Arnold Foster, secretary and treasurer of the Union Works Company, of San Francisco, who is at present visiting Gisborne, stated, in the course of an interview, that the merchants there were keenly anxious to open up business with New 'Zealand, or, in fact, with any one who would buy. He had been asked by a number of large firms to make inquiries from the chambers of commerce throughout tho Dominion as to what the business people here really wanted. The difficulty, of course, was transit, but if a permanent service was opened ho thought it would be an encouragement to bring about trade. Probably a trade could bo worked up in wool and frozen meat, but there was apparently some difiiculty over the latter. The Aorangi's trial shipment, for some reason or other, could not be landed, and had to be sent up north. The price of meat was very high in 'Frisco, an! tho consumers were really in the hands of tho commission people, who' would fight hard to keep the prices up.