TRADE WITH CANADA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 881, 27 January 1930, Page 2

TRADE WITH CANADA

NEW COMMISSIONER WILL SAIL APRIL 22 HEADQUARTERS NOT CHOSEN The newly-appointed Trade Commissioner to Canada, Mr. J. W. Collins, will sail from Wellington on April On arrival in Canada he will make a tour of the principal centres of that Dominion, meeting representative manufacturers and commercial men, I and making himself acquainted with conditions and trade in all its departments. Mr. Collins is at present in Auckland on business connected with the Department of Industries and Commerce. He will return to Auckland again on February 27, when he will address the Chamber of Commerce. Before leaving New Zealand Mr. Collins proposes to tour the Dominkm ji in company ‘ with Mr. C. M. Croft, Canadian Trade Commissioner, and get into personal touch with all New Zealand firms which are interested in. trade with Canada. He will spend some days in Auckland for thia purpose, as many commercial houses here are closely associated with Canadian trade. xv.avco New Zealand Mr. Collins hopes to be in possession of much valuable information which will be of assistance to him when he takes up his new duties in Canada. The headquarters of the new Trade Commissioner in Canada will be either in Montreal or Toronto, but Mr. Collins has not yet decided which city will be chosen. The choice is left to his discretion, but the final decision will not be made until after he has made his extensive tour of Canada. It is not expected that the office will be opened and in full working order until the end of September or the beginning of October, when the tour has been completed. Trade affairs, of course, will predominate in the new office, but it will ; also be used to some extent for ge°" eral publicity purposes. New Zealand visitors to Canada will be able to can at the office. All facilities wiU be provided for them, and it will be one of Mr. Collins’s duties to give them introductions to any industrial or I commercial people they wish to m«®*Similarly Canadian visitors to New Zealand will be provided with introductions to people here. The duties of Trade Commissioner involve a great deal of public speak* ing, and it will be another ot 31 r * Collins's duties to attend functions 01 every kind, to represent the Dominion“l hope to put New Zealand ver * thoroughly on the map as far as pr®' duce, scenic attractions, etc., are concerned,'* he said this morning. Speaking of trade generally b * tween Canada and New Zealand, -5 • Collins said New Zealand’s that Dominion had grown I £ 620,000 in 1926. to nearly in 1929. New Zealand’s imports Canada during the past three 3had increased by approxm £1.000,000. Our imports from Can^ at present amounted to be** £3,000,000 and £4,000,000 a year.