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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 76

Extension of Trade with Canada

Extension of Trade with Canada.

To this subject I have referred in another part of this report. I would now respectfully point to the advantages to this colony that must necessarily follow by closer trade relations with that vast dominion. With additional shipping facilities, new markets will open up for frozen mutton and lamb, preserved meats, grass-seeds, barley, butter, hemp, hides, and wool; while at the same time New Zealand importers would get the benefit of cheaper lines of goods now manufactured in Canada. With the present existing arrangements and tariff treaties New South Wales receives the benefit of 25 per cent, reduction on existing duties. Strenuous efforts are being made by exporters in our sister-colony to capture the trade which is now being developed in Vancouver and Victoria (B.C.).

While thanking many manufacturers, brokers, and merchants for the valuable assistance extended to me during my investigations in Europe, America, and Canada, I would specially refer to the letters of Messrs. W F. Malcolm and Co., one of the best-known fibre-brokers in London. This firm spent a considerable time in discussing with me the fibre industry generally, and they have placed on record some valuable suggestions, which, if acted upon, would, in my opinion, insure for our product an increasing demand.

The several letters also attached from various merchants, manufacturers, and brokers in Britain, America, and Canada confirm the views expressed by Messrs. W. F. Malcolm and Co.