Trade With Britain

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 166, 13 January 1914, Page 5

Trade With Britain

NEED FOR. INTRI3A§# COMMISSIONER'S VIEW&; ,' J '*« '' j By Telograph.—Press Association. Wellington, Ye«tcrd»y. Mr W. 0. Wickliam, Brifoh lr»d» Commissioner in Xcw Zealand, go« Home on January 30 to report to tjft various trado organisations intereßteJ9t. trade with the Dominion. Speaking io a pressman to-day, Mr Wiekham wi& he found serious difficulties in the v»jr of carrying out his work. Firms mi' here were callous, and would not take' the'trouble to answer enquiries waStr in their own interest and with a view of extending their own business. IfilH year, lie said, the proportion of B'ritiih' goods imported was npnroximately 58.4 per cent. His business was to «e tltis proportion greatly in reused. The chief difficulties in the way of British good* having a bigger market were the high freights from Home, and the granting of subsidies to German and Japanese* steamship lines. Then tho Dominion had a very high cost of to its scattered population. Time «M the only remedy for that. The rcsultiT>f those difficulties was that things, were expensive out here, and there wag a tendency for people to go in for low-quality goods. This was directly contrary*) the interest of British trade. Mr Wickliam confers with Mr* Milne, Australian Commissioner of Tra'de •'■" Pydney, early in February, and thill catches the P. and 0. steamer Maloja ; for London. He will be abscW for sis , months. ~ ~ .» . I • ■; " ■ v ». <■ .