TRADE WITH CANADA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 119, 7 October 1912, Page 4

TRADE WITH CANADA.

GOVERNOR OPTIMISTIC. •Some interesting figures, which he said were official, were quoted by His , Excellency the Governor at New Plymouth on Saturday in illustration of the phenomenal growth of New Zealand's export trade with Canada... In leading up to these, he remarked that the farmers had got a splendid market for their produce in the shape of the Mother Country, but it was essential for those who were-re-sponsible for the'administration of cooperative, and agricultural organisation to watch all markets available for New Zealand produce. ''Have," he remarked, "as many strings to your bow as possible, as the more strings you have the more chance you have of retaining your present high prices. You have a splendid market in your sister Dominion Canada. Perhaps some of you are hardly alive to the increased trade with that country. It only shows you the affect of transport. It is only four years ago that your export to Canada of'agricultural produce amounted to something like between £II,OOO and £12,000 annually. Now, last year your exports to Canada ran info something very much like £300,000. Better still, in the-first three months of this year there is an increase over the corresponding three months to the nmmmt -of £42.000. In other Avoids, the increase in the first three months of this year is a great deal more than the whole export you enjoyed only four years ago, in 1908." Proceeding, ho gave some of our itpms of export to Canada from October 27 last rear to Ansrust 30 this year:—s9,s3B boxei of butter. IG7O bales of wool. 1(5.793 hales of hides. Butter had increase*! from 2900 We* in 1910 to close upon 00.000 boxes this year, and not all of it yet pone. Touching on another point, TTis Excellency said he wns in receipt of official information to t.li« effect that the whole of Hie Tvailnble p-arco snapp for the ships going from New Zealand to Canada for the next three months had already been booked for the consignment of agricultural produce. Canada, he believed, was <roin<r to be a most powerful string to New Zealand's bow. Its population wns inereasinsr at

•'t(>of 500,#00 per year, and in place of dairying much of the land was mostly Boon devoted to cereal and orchard agriculture. More find morn, lie concluded, would her inhabitants he askinc for frozon meat and butter—things which New Zealand could produce.