TRADE WITH U.S.A.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10296, 3 June 1919, Page 10

TRADE WITH U.S.A.

IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL MOVE. A movement which is likely to have an important bearing upon Now Zealand’s future trade with the United States, states the Auckland "Star,” is represented by- Mr Albert Goldie, a former Australian journalist, who arrived in Auckland bv the R.M.S. Niagara. Mr Goldie is the bearer of a letter from the Los Angeles .Chamber of Commerce conveying an invitation to similar organisations in this country to co-operate in a scheme which has been formulated in the Southern California metropolis for establishing direct steamshio communication between Los Angeles harbour and the ports of New Zealand and Australia, with a consequent interchange of products. In this movement the Los Angeles Harbour Board is also active, and ha« appointed Mr Goldie a special commissioner to investigate the possibility of securing Isufficient cargoes to justify a regular service between the ports mentioned. "’’’Los Angeles is now the largest city on the Pacific Coast,” states Mr Goldie, “and. its growth during the past three or four years ha»s been phenomenal. Having recently completed its plans for the wention. of a tboropyb’y practical harbour at San Pedro, with all the necessary accommodation for big shipping, the city of Los Angeles now aspires to become one of the most important manufacturing and maritime centre* of the United Statrtu To this end the I.os Angeles Chamber of Commerce, one of the finest organisations of its kind in iho world, has established industrial and forsign trade departments fully equipped to organise a campaign for commercial progress on an unprecedented scale. No effort or money is.to be spared to capture Pacific • trade, and particularly _ that of the Southern Seas, it being pointed out that Los Angeles is nearer to Australia and New Zealand than any other point in the United States; that it is also nearer by rail to the Eastern Static; that the southern trims - continental routes offer less difficulties for the transportation of freight than those of the north ;■ and , that Southern California offers incomparable attractions to the tourist. 1 *

Mr Goldie’s fiWt step will be to present his message to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, and he will subsequently deliver a series of lectures on Southern California, illustrated by motion pictures specially taken for the purii fe by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Before leaving America Mr Goldie addressed a number of gatherings at various Chambers of Commerce end business men’s clubs on conditions in Australia and New Zealand, and the movement he now represents is the result of a lecture on this subject delivered by him last February to the commercial fraternity of Southern California. The "New York Commercial,” the oldest daily commercial journal in the United States, has given Mr Goldie an assignment to repo:t through its, columns on the possibilities of trade expansion between Australia, New Zealand and the United States.