AUCKLAND’S CLIMATE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 May 1927, Page 12

AUCKLAND’S CLIMATE

CANADIAN IMPRESSED NEW TRADE COMMISSIONER mild and salubrious. that is how I found the Auckland climate described in a New Zealand Year Book,” said Mr. Paul Sykes as he gazed at the city’s glorious skyline from the deck of the Niagara this morning. “And I think it must be,” he commented as the sun broke through a veil of mist and showed Auckland in all her beauty of massive building and tree-studded hill.

Mr. Sykes, who is accompanied by his wife, is coming to New Zealand to take the place of Mr. Croft, Canadian Trade Commissioner, during his absence in Canada. Speaking of the timber which is imported into New Zealand, Mr. Sykes said that Canada was now 50-50 with America. It was one of the most important questions occupying the minds of the traders at present. Canada supplies the Dominion with cedar, douglas fur, hemlock and spruce, which were just as good as the American woods.

Speaking of trade generally, Mr. Sykes gave one item which proved the fallacy of taking trade returns on the surface. Canada imported large quantities of sausage casing from New Zealand, and then retaliated by sending sausage skins to New Zealand.

Canadian farming is improving and the year promises to be a good one. New Zealand butter is very highly thought of in Canada, particularly on the Vancouver side, but it also finds its way across to the other States. Mr. Sykes said that he left his home just at the time when the new liquor laws were coming into force in Ontario. AH saloons were to be closed and all liquor had to be sold through Government shops by permit.