INTERNATIONAL TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1697, 13 March 1913, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL TRADE.

ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES' FOR ALL. •y Tel«BraDh—Prosi Asaooiatlon—Copyright, London,: March ll. ( . :Sir'Algernon Freeman Firth,'president of the Association of Chambers, o£ Commerce in the United Kingdom, in presid- j ing at a,meeting; of the. association in London, attributed the'universal increase cf trade' in 1912. to the development of new countries. It had been proved that there was ro6m, v fdr n Hl,' and''endle§£'V>]k portuiiities for ! enterprise'remained. ; '•■., -It was'resolved to ',utg» Mr. Sidney. Buxton, President.', of the Board'of Trade,; to publish;.informatiori, of the trade with countries contiguous to, ■ the Panama Canal. ; - > ■ BOOM IN LATIN AMERICA. • ■ • Fremantle, March 12.

Mr.' Milne, tha British Board of, Trade representative in Australia, has arrived. ... He recently visited Latin America,, and states that he was greatly impressed with the potentialities ,o£ that fecund area; In the next thirty years it would startle the i'world with its richness of production. Between, >6900,000 and .E1,000,000 of British capital was invested there, of whioh Mf was in the ■ Argentine. v Ho said:he had come to Australia to : sit down and learn. "In the near " future," he said, "we will be employing ; Trade Commissions instead of subagents." It has been, decided to open '• as. agency in Sydney.