TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1925, Page 2

TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA

FRANCK’S HID TO SCRIM.ANT GERMANY. LONDON, M.av 1-1. A commercial mission, which, on the initiative of a group of Strasbourg business men, headed by M. Kcrn-Mar-saud, is to visit Australia and New Zealand ami will France in September ami will probably be absent six or eight months. It i- hoped tLilt very (onsiderahle business will he done, both from the point of view of improving the French market, in Australia. and of finding new openings for Australian ami New Zealand goods io Frame. M. Ivern-Marsaud declares that he first had the idea of sending a group of business men to Australia in order to expand the commercial relations between the two countries, during tho last two months of the war, when he was attached to the Australian forces on the Somme. The necessity of such a mission is now becoming urgent, he argues, as the prohibition of the importation of German goods into Australia cannot continue for ever; certain German goods are already nicking their re-ppearanee on the Australian market, and France must act at once, if she is to take the place formerly occupied in Australia hv Germany. In the first place the mission will endeavour to conclude direct contracts with the prinieipal firms likely to be interested in French goods, secondly, it will create local agencies of the type suggested in the report of General Bait’s mission to Australia, and thirdly, it will collect information with re-

in the first place the mission will endeavour to conclude direct contracts with the prinieipal firms likely to be interested in French goods, secondly, it will create local agencies of the type suggested in the report of General Ban’s mission to Australia, and thirdly, it will collect information with regard to exports and imports. Eventually it is hoped to establish a cargo service from Australia to Marseilles.