TAHITI AND NEW ZEALAND, INTERCHANGE OF TRADE. M. LACASCADE AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 425, 4 December 1889, Page 3

TAHITI AND NEW ZEALAND, INTERCHANGE OF TRADE. M. LACASCADE AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

M, Lauasuadk, Governor of Tahiti and a number ot other dependencies of Frdnce in-; the Central Pacific.had mi interview yestorday with the members cf the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, at the New Zealand Insurance Building. Captain Calbeok presided, and expressed the pleasure u which the members of the Chamber felt at this interviow with M. Lacascade'. Governor Lacascade thanked the President for his welcome, and said that he certainly should not have left Auckland without seeking an interview with the Chamber. He was most anxious to establish mutual | relations between his little colony and this large one, and believed that these would prove most satisfactory. This year, he mentioned, the subsid) to tlio line of mail and cargo echooners running between San Francisco and l J apeete (capital of Tahiti) would cease, and the result would be to throw the bulk of the trade into the hands of New Zealand, which was nearer and far more convenient of access. A certain amount of trade was done by the steamer Richmond, but her calls were too infrequent for postal services, and ho was anxious to establish a line of steamer service in direct communication with the 'Frisco service at Samoa, and having Auckland as a centre between Tahiti and New Caledonia. Ho intended going to Dunedin, and while there he would, if possible, mako some* convenient arrangement with the Union Steamship Company. Personally lie had every wish to establish the closest relations between Tahiti and AucKland. The principal tiade between Auckland and Tahiti would be in meat, produce, provisions, timber, etc. There was an import duty of 12V to 13 per cent. He stated that he would in future avail himself of the fact of the Calliope Dock being open free to foreign war vessels to endeavour to get them here when necessary.