The Daily News TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. EXTENDING TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 13 August 1907, Page 2

The Daily News TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. EXTENDING TRADE.

The business men uf Manchester hi*e ahvnys shown ii keen desire to j.tu-

mote an extension of trade with New Zealand, and it will be no fault if thcir.s if this colony does not prulit liy the establishment of a. lucrative trade connection. At the present time .Mr Duncan Stclfox, of a big .Manchester linn, is in the colony, and has been gathering certain information for ilio |,ur|>ose of coining into much with (he tiade in the colony. When interviewed in Auckland lie si Ued' that hi vi-Hing -Sew Zealand his main object was to ~1-oseeute a sclieiue for devesting the ejporl timber trade, for which there is | a large market in the north of England. I At present most of tlie colony's exports are landed at London, which meant extra handling and freightage before Mley reached the northern counties, but in order that this serious drawback might be dune away with, his linn had made arrangements with the Federal Shinping Company to take New Zealand goods direct to .Manchester, via the ship canal, fining back to the question of the timber trade, Sir Stclfox stated that there was a great demand for limber in England at the. present time; tiie nallics forests were rapidly being de••'"leu; and tho same applied to Canada, from which the supplies were rapidly falling oil'. Already a large English linn was using Xew Zealand woods. Michiding the (op brandies of totara, f rr the manufacture of pencils, which eouid be made 3(1 per cent, cheaper out of this wood than out of the ordinary cedar. During his tour through New Zealand be had been much impressed with (he colony's timber resources, especially those of the- N'orfh Island. Tie had siready forwarded 120.000 ft of white pine I" England as n sample shipment. Tt was a ticklish timber to deal with, and he was very much interested as to iow the voyage Home would affect it, ,1s if it got through all right a big trade would probably result. lie had also taken advantage of the opportunity while « louring round to look into 'he colony's, resources. He was ver niin-h impressed with the possibilities which awaited the development of the goldmining and gold-dredging industries, the antimony mines, and seheelile iiqu>=iis in Otago. and Taranaki ironsand. There w.iiS considerable scope for enterprise in each, and when he got back to England he would do all he could to influence his financial friends to put capital into them. Mr Stelfox intended to visit the South Sea Islands shortly, and after . a hurried tour of Anslrnlia, will return to England via Canada.