Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1911. CANADA AND NEW ZEALAND.
While New Zealand farmers are meeting together and joining in lamentations over the treatment- they are receiving from London merchants, the astute Australians are despatching ships laden with frozen meat and other produce to British Columbia. The quality of this produce is not what it should be, and the Canadians appear to be very anxious to establish a permanent trade with New Zealand. The difficulty of steamer connection is not a serious one. If a satisfactory trade could be opened up with. Western Canada, the shipping facilities would soon offer. New Zealand has a Produce Commissioner—save the mark!—roaming the world. At last accounts he was somewhere in South America. Why is he not instructed by the Agricultural Department to get in and do something? Why does lie not investigate this Canadian market and place the producers in possession of all the details? If he is not the man to do it, then .somebody should be employed who is. There is something approaching the humorous a;bout the producers of New Zealand appointing a. man at £ISOO a year to chase a will-o'-the-wisp around the London docks, whilst more profitable and easy markets require investigation almost at our very doors. British Columbia itself offers a fine opening for New Zealand 'frozen, meat, which is at present obtained from Alberta. If the Agricultural Department will not exploit it, wliy do not the producers to work? New Zealand is a bountiful country. It has a sublime climate and all the rest of it. But,
when it comes to transacting solid business and getting to work to push things, it is beat-en every time byAustralia;. ' What axe wanted are a few live business men at the head of affairs—men who are watchful for the main chance, and who never niiss it. If we cannot breed such men r it would pay the Dominion handsomely to import them.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 4
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324Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1911. CANADA AND NEW ZEALAND. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10209, 11 April 1911, Page 4
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