Trade With Canada

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 17 January 1914, Page 5

Trade With Canada

I A LARGE INCREASE. SOME INTERESTING REMARKS.- • J By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' } Auckland, Last Nighto ' i Trade between New Zealand and OftftJ ada is developing rapidly, said 'Mr W.-'A/l Beddoc, Canadian Tiade Commij»km«& to-day. Since the inauguration of tftflJ direct Bcrvice to Vancouver the export* - of New Zealand to Canada have bees; constantly on the increase. Th* «tp»»ft «ion wa3 particularly noticeable ter and beef. Mr Beddoc quoted the foU>Uwing comparative figures illuatrattttt-1 the growth in certain lines of araorWi from New Zealand to Canada 4n tic- f > past two years.—Boxes of butter li' 1»12 79,838. i- 1913 quarterns' ; beef, 41) and 26,014; carcases of veal. Ugf. ■>* and.247Bj carcases of mutton, noße*ads 3081. He regarded the business between '■'* the two countries as pennanent. '!Brv? fact, the business between New Zealand " and Canada was only at its beginning."' •A country which was receiving eveijf 1 -'? two years a number of immigrants to the entire population of New Zealand,-,? all of them being consumers, and a ywf'} few of them producers of the enumerated above, is the basis "«{*»*? which I found my opinion. People f/>'4 to Canada for free land, upon which. '-.' they raiße wheat. A very tion of the newcomers arc engaged ;jo\f dairy farming or the raising of rtooitv. Then, again, it is cheaper to sand fci&£} ter from New Zealand to than it is to send it irom Eastern OM'«jj£ ada to Vancouver by mil." „;*re The business done by Canada with-iif New Zealand is also proceedinc ©a "aA';' satisfactory basis, remarked Mr. B«d» : doe. News-paper, motor-car's, agrieq] l - !y tural machinery, furniture, wire, iron ; pipes, and carriage ware tre tho line*'-' which are being exchanged by Canada .' for the natural products of New XMk.; land. For the first time in 80 ye«»v Canada did not export butter to Knjf-"' land in 1013. She was -now placed' OR.-' the permanent list in all trade ciwJ*fit''' as an importer of butter. It was onW} a few years ago that Canada ejqportwtrf 11,500,000 worth of .butter per year »). i England. "We are 8,000,000 of oeontefe' with 2,000,000 sheep," observed Mr docs in conclusion. "New Zealand ifiif' 1,000,000 of people and 24,000f10p A*W» ?' : i and, being Britishers, and there is no doubt that if tronspbrtaUpijra? could T)e provided direct to Eastern OJjgfj.l ada, whore the bulk of the population-C is, splendid business would reßult." - V -'h