TRADE WITH CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1960, 17 January 1914, Page 6

TRADE WITH CANADA.

STEADILY INCREASING', ' <By Telegraph.-Press Association.) Auckland, January 16. lrade between New Zealand and Canada is developing rapidly, said Mr ,iW. A. Beddoo, Canadian Trade Commissioner, to-day. Since tho inauguration of tho direct servico to Vancouver the exports of New Zealand to Canada. lave been constantly on tho increase. The expansion was particularly noticeable in butter and beef. Mr. Beddoe quoted tho following comparative figures illustrating tho growth in certain lines of exports from New Zealand to Canada in tho past two years:—Boxes butter in 1912, 79,838; in 1913, 132,368. Quarters of beef, 40 and 26,914; carcasses of veal, 393 and 2478; carcasses of jnutton, nono and 1 3084. Ho regarded tho business between the two countries as permanent. In fact, tho business between Now Zealand and Canada was only at its teginning.* A country ■which is receiving every two years a number of immigrants equal to the entiro population of New Zealand, all of ihem being consumers, and very few of them producers of tho products enumerated above, is the basis upon which he founds his opinion. People, ho said, go to Canada for free land, upon which they raise wheat. A very small proportion of tho newcomers engago .in dairy-farming or tho raising of. stock. Then, again, it is cheaper to send butter from New Zealand to Vancouver than it is to send it from Eastern Canada to Vancouver hy rail. The business dono by Canada with New Zealand is also proceeding upon a satisfactory basis, remarked Mr. Boddoo. Newspaper, motor-cars, agricultural ir.nchinDry, furniture, wire, iron pipes, end carriage ware are the lines which ere being exchanged by Canada for tho natural products of New Zealand. For t!io first timo in 50 years Canada did not export butter to England in 1913. She was now placed on tho permanent list in all trade circles as an importer of butter. It #as only a few years ago •tlint Canada exported £I.soo,ooo'.worth' •Df .butter per year to England. "We nrd 8,000,000 of people with 2,500,000 sheep," observed Mr. Boddoo, in , conclusion. "Now Zealand has 1,000.000 of people and 24,000,000 sheep, and being flritishors and mutton-eaters there is no drubt tlint if transportation could be provided direct to Eastern Canada, where tho bulk of tho population is, iplendid business would! results