N.Z. MISSION IN CANADA

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1925, Page 4

N.Z. MISSION IN CANADA

I TRADE ENVOY BUSY. \'AXCOrVER. February ! Villowini! up i! u - recent successful commercial iiivestij'iit"inii m the Cnitc-d Stairs liy Mr Claude Haigh and .Mr dniin E. Win.sluc, l'eproKentiiiji, Tours. •New Zealand. Limited, with a view to developing trading between Xew Zealand and America. Air Haigh has returned to the North American continent and is now busily enlaced prosecuting a vigorous trade mission in Canada. lie arrived in \':utcouvcr on the trip oi' the T:\iblt to the Hritislt Columljian port, and, upon bis reaching that centre of industry, stated tlii.it- his mission to Canada "was to interest every connnereial, tourist am! Government body in the furtherance of Empire trade and more particularly to briny, into closer trade relationship the lloniinion. Australia and Xew Zealand.”

-Mr Ii a igli, who represents the Empire Development l’ublieity Association, stated thtil he expected to spend four mouths in Canada, visiting ail of the la rite commercial centres.

Before leavin'! Xew Zealand .Mr llnigli was given letters of introduction by Afr C. Al. Croft, Doiniiiion Trade Coii’inissioner. to the secretaries ol Boards of Trade in Canada, moulding Air W. E. Bayne, of Vancouver.

He intends to gather a mass of data re yard in;! manufactures and exports and Canada’s potentialities and distribute tin's information throughout Xew Zealand and Australia. In connexion with ibis work, he and his associates plan to issue a series of publications descriptive of the various outposts of the Empire, and showing the development and trade possibilities.

“Wo are convinced," he said, "tin what Canada and the whole of the En pi re needs to-dav. is a greater dissen illation of information regarding tli potentialities of the various Dumin ions.”