AMERICA ON NEW ZEALAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43080, 11 April 1907, Page 4

AMERICA ON NEW ZEALAND.

The American Exp#fter, -a journal published in New York and devoted to the encouragement of • American com-niea-lce,. takes the manufacturers of the United States severely to task for not having made greater use Of the New Zealand International Exhibition to introduce their goods to the people of this colony. The Aim-erican Consular agent in Christchurch seems to have fully advised the Department of Commerce and Labour of the advantages to he obtained from the Exhibition, and to. have painted the possibilities of the great fair in quite sufficiently attractive colour’s. “This exposition, he wrote, “is the most important one ever held in Australasia. It. cover al4 acres, and the cost of the main buildings is estimated at 500,000d01, although the entire expenditure before the opening were probably,three times that sum.” Happily, this estimate of the wst of the building was never reached. If £300,000 had been expended before the Exhibition opened its doors the Government would have little chance of getting off with such a modest contribution as £50,000. The agent pointed out. that Canada had been more alive than the United States had: been to the opporunity of cultivating new markets ,and had sent forward samples of its products that would form one. of the most striking features of the Exhibition. On this the “Exporter” remarks that New Zear land is a country that is little understood by American manufacturers, and proceeds to instruct them. >c lt is,” it says, ‘a remarkable country in : miany respeicbs. Its food producing r capacity, mineral resources, thermal | wonders, fishing, climate and s'cenery ‘and prosperity .generally, are not paralleled. Gold to the amount of 325,000,000dol has been taken from the surface in the last- fiftv vears, and yet even the surface of the gold-bear-ing deposits have been only a little worked. Gretat results wait further prospecting, and the use of scientific methods. New Zealand produces excellent coal, and in close uroximity are immense deposits of iron ore waiting development..” The “Exporter” thinks that New Zealand labour laws, with the short hours of labour and high wages, ‘render it. out of the question for the country to supply its own wants for manufactured goods in competition with other countries for manr years to come,” but it recognises that the prosperity and the purchasing power of the people are quite phenomenal, and urges that American manufacturers should seize every opportunity to study their requirements.