NEW ZEALAND TRADE METHODS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9585, 3 September 1909, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND TRADE METHODS.

A FOREIGNER'S CRITICISM

By Telegraph~Press Association. PALMERSTON N., September 2. Mr Hwang, the Chinese Consul, is not enamoured of New Zealand methods of fostering trade with foreigners, especially with the Far East. He considers there are many things which New Zealand could sapply, in large quantities, to China, but the only trade done with that country is by a few Chinese merchants. For instance, such things as fungus, sharks' fins and beche de mer. which are esteemed as such delicacies in China, are to be got readily in New Zealand, but none <A the merchants seem to think it worth while establishing a trade in such things, while little ia done in the more common products—mutton, beef and wool, which find ready markets in China. , Mr Hwang spoke of the casual way in which New Zealand conducted business with foreign countries. "The New Zealand people don't seem to know how to trade,' he said to a "Standard" reporter yesterday. "They rarely, if ever, seek trade. Any trade done with a foreign country is the result of the work of the agents of those countries, and not through any effort on the part of New Zealand. They are content to send their exports to Englishspeaking countries, and have got an idea that they can keep it among themselves., That'is not good business."