FOREIGN TRADE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2161, 29 May 1914, Page 3

FOREIGN TRADE

, PftQSFECTS QW. EXPANSION. •. 'Some remarks on loreign , trafjp tv-ei-e made lay the. president of thp WelKnfiton CbaftibßF :oir Domniefee (Mr, G, '\f. JaiWs) at the. anniiftl njeeting; of the body. • The growing jWdSpftet of commerce B'ith Canada and tlie tlnited 'State was, lift said; of firstsrafe ■iinportafioo to Now Zealand. On the Pacific coast of those. comst-ries flier& was a popuhtion of raillioits, r <vte Wanted products .whjcb Australasia* could (nipply, aii-d it was far Now Zealand to see tjsftt. it eisciiMd.ils shaire of that trade. Ftirtuna-fcoly . the Gevftrnaient-' (both tlie tatn.Gorewinwnt ant! ti)O prestutt GoreTnawnt) had"hc.Mi to tiro {kissihilities. in that difect-sati. A steamer service ' to file Paerfjc ports from Nety Zealand.slgiib {without m ("Xtejiston to AustJaKft) would not, tip w> the p;re-jwn-i, .14 any rnte, 3iavo bvvn a pnvaiile■pfoposition, eitiier as a cargo service er as a mail service, abd for the Australian beats f.o (ml) at New Zeafaifd lueaot a Bvarkc-d deriatj6n an 4 ceiisoquetst loss of tinw. Itealisiwg-this, fc-ir stetoaneh took ctutly. steps to Secure Kesv Ziwla.nd's positicrt by nißa.ns of mail subsidies. . .

Tile possibilities 6f trade frith the United States hrid been ftnofmeiisiy !iv the late sweeping roductioTTs in tbs American tariff. Tci etitdents of .political economy the reductfej in the Anierieaa tariff , ivrts one of .tho most interesting' • Scono-mic events tliat , have 4cenT.pml smed■■ the inruig-tira-tion . of frnti tewte in .early in last- centufx;. It was' tn be ljaped tb.at jfc was Qfflj- tlio forerunnnr pi s.itnJ" lav movewittivts in other cowvtries. Tlie effects of ths change wore already b.pfemiing t<l be felt. , Ttwir exports cif (kiry product; in that diteettdn wsre expnnditif? rapidly. Ttiefo had b.e«M srvcunl rfitpmeJifcs sf wool to Jvevr Y«k ami Boston via C-.ipi* Hern, ami sWpißPttts of'meat (thaugh not'of ?ai*}!e ftfee, ntt<l soraewhnt <ii an experimental pliara/oter), from Aastjrah'ri, So vMtmtanUng was tlie pr.ospee't that the XJftiwi Stc-mii Shin Compisnj', Ltd , had lnaitgttr.'vt.ed a In.-hianth.ly cargo sprviee between Ans» tralia - ami 'the Pacific Coast, whieh. wmrld nioliirlo a call st New ZeaJtiftd ports whomever ilwluoeme-iit effcts. Tfc wai for Netf Zeakwd to sw "iijftt tlie jndaceHteirt was Jertbconjing.