DOMINION TRADE WITH INDIA

Evening Star, Issue 24281, 24 August 1942, Page 5

DOMINION TRADE WITH INDIA

ENVOY'S MISSION (I’.A.) AUCKLAND, August 23 Charged with exploring the possibilities of increasing trade between New Zealand and India. Mr Ramji Ram Saksena, Indian Government Trade Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand, is paying his first visit to the Dominion. ... There were products normal to either country of which the other was in considerable need, Mr Saksena said, but there were difficulties that were due not to the reluctance of buyers on either side, but to the necessity of war needs being served first. He wished to make contact with the Government and the business community of the Dominion to find out what could best be done in the cricumstances. In postwar years India could, for instance, take very 7 large quantities of wool and could easily supply New Zealand’s entire requirements of cotton textiles. India’s output of cottons had been doubled since the outbreak of war, but oven so it was insufficient to cope with the added tasks of clothing the armies of Russia and China. Ways were still being found. Mr Saksena said, of sending materials of war to China, though the routes available were not able to carry individual articles of any 7 : great size or weight. There was, however, some hope of improving communications in the near future.