TRADE EXTENSION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1162, 24 June 1911, Page 7

TRADE EXTENSION.

DOMINION AND 'FRISCO. BRIGHTER PROSPECTS. Mr. H. K. Holladay, mannser of tho Pacific Exporting Company, San InnCisco, a largo exporting and importing house, is at present in Wellington, having arrived bv the Maita-i on Friday. Mr. Holladay 'has come on a visit of inquiry. Thero is at present on tho Pacific seaboard of America a marked desire among exporting houses to turn attention to NewZealand and Australia. Recently qui to a number of these business houses . havo sent representatives here. Mr. Holladay is getting into touch with agents here, anil inquiring into the possibilities. of trade. "New Zealand," he said yesterday to a Dosu.vion' representative, "is coming nioro and more before tho people on tho Western sido of tho States." Until recently they havo looked upon her as being out of tho world. Greater transport facilities aro responsible for the change. The Union Company, I understand, aro going to continue their present line to 'Frisco _ for some time, and, if that bo so, business between the States and Now Zealand must increase." Mr. Holladay is of opinion that the preferential tariffs imposed in Now Zealand will" not prove a serious bar to trade. In one respect, tho importation of flour and other goods io tho islands of- the Pacific, this could ba avoided. Instead of tho goods going first to Auckland, they could ba ordered for shipment direct to tho Island ports. He understood that tho Mariposa had brought to the Islands from 'Frisco from 125,000 to 150,000 bags of flour per year. His firm were, in addition,' anxious to learn tho possibilities

regarding opening markets .in.'Frisco for I New Zealand produce, especially butter and cheese. There should be excellent opportunities in this respect in tho months of October and . November, when the American supply ■ was at its ebb. Mr. Holladay does not think that any. thing but good could como out of a reciprocity agreement between Canada and the.United States; and, questioned as to tho American feeling on the matter, ho said, that no ono. of any standin;; for a moment gave a thought to the cry that the States sought to Americanise Canada. Only tho isolated remarks of one or two men in public positions, whose words had really little weight, had been cabled to the colonies, and not the weightier sentiments of tho leading representatives of tho people. • ' One other interesting statement was made by Mr. Hoiladay. viz.—That g"ods can be brong'.it to Now. Zealand from Now York, via Cape Horn, cheaper than thev can if shipped direct from 'Frisco. He hones, however,' as trade jncreases, that this will not contimio.to bo the case. Tho.

coming Exposition at San Francisco is expected to .greatly extend tho trade' operations, and tho manufacturers of the Pacific sea-board. Regarding tho rocently-pa-ssod legislation to break up trusts in America, tho visitor

docs not, for one moment, believo that it will provo effective. The trusts, ho says, have grown to such a vast extent that they can almost afford to srailo nt the legislation—at all events thero will bo found wars to defeat it.

"Mr. Holladay remains a few days in Wellington, and after visiting Auckland and tho South Island cities, he proceeds to Melbourne and' Sydney.