TRADE WITH AMERICA
A VISITOR'S-VIEWS. -Mr. Alastair Maegregor Frame, of tho firm of Frame, Leaycraft. and Co., general merchants...of..New! .York, .has been viewing. New Zealand through American eyes. Speaking' to a reporter in Dunedin, ,he. sa : d that ..New Zealand's , trade with San Francisco was bound to increase, especially when shipping space became more plentiful. One big -advantage which tho States held over England in this relation was , the fact that the former had lately abandoned the method of receiving goods on consignment onlj:. and instituted business on. . a . ci.i.f. basis, v-'bereas England's trade with New Zealand .'goods. was mostly on the consignment principle: Mr. Frame was strongly of the opiir'on that nn immense amount of good would result if both British and American business houses were occasionally to send out one of their principals to visit tho merchants of New Zealand, lr.stead of bo'insr content with representation by a travelling salesman only. Thero was a wonderful-future-before thig Dominion, aifd such attention would,, bo worth, while.
Sneaking of-Britain's position commercially in'relation to. America., the visitor Eaid that liad the Old Country liepn able t.i take advantage of the situation in .America' created by tbo abnormal rato of exchange. she would have bad a treni'endons advantage. As it ivas, she could not. do this owing to her factories being not yet in full swing. Asked regarding the b : pr and crowing dpmand in America for rahhitsldns,- Mr. Frame remarked that his firm handled perhaps morn of these useful iittlo tl'jivjs than any other firm in the States. There was. he predicted, a. tremendous future in America for rabbi tsk'jis, for the reason that all other furs were increasing so rapidly in price. Each of the nn?t. four years showed a rise nf from 20 to 40 per cent., and this had made them bo expensive that even the American public could not afford to buv thorn a? freelv as thev iml to. Another factor was that tbo dyeimr of raMiitskins. v.-hicb bad been done almost solely in Leinsic, wa= now done in New York, and +lw skins v.'ero preoared so beaut : fully that they vero sold freely as imitation sealskins. Tim winters in the Eastern States are cold, said Mr. Frame, (lint waet cn'ly even- woman owns a fuir coat, so Ihe pom:la.rity of the preoared rabbitskin coat can bo Tn bis opiiron t.be demand will I>° fullv maintained for yc-ars. While the better grade skins ere used bv the fur"'ors. the poorer gntdnt a. r P utilised profitab'v by the hatter*. Tin- New Zealand skins .-ire considered to be much superior to the Australian, and are better eraded. Mr. Frame nx.presfd the oninion that rabbit-breeding would never be a success in the States. Far from bopomiPT a p°st. as in Australia and New Zealand, they are. in the State of New York anv way, protected for all but n-<v»lra in the year.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 3
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482TRADE WITH AMERICA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 3
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