NEW MARKETS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21805, 10 June 1936, Page 6

NEW MARKETS

TO THE EDITOR CP THE PRESS. Sir, —I can quite understand why Glasgow gets very few supplies shipped direct. I myself asked a Christchurch firm last year to get space for 300 lambs to be shipped to Glasgow. The advice I received was to send to Smithfield. The whole trouble is that there is too much Smithfield and Tooley street. When the High Commissioner visited Glasgow two years ago it was said that this visit was the prelude to an intensive campaign which the New Zealand Produce Board would open in Glasgow immediately. By the look of the figures little Bill Hughes evidently got in first. Besides, Sir James Parr was met at his hotel at 9.30 a.m. and left the same evening for the Strand. That day’s work calls back what happened in Christchurch some years ago. A traveller from Dunedin called on a business man in Christchurch. The Christchurch man said, “We don't see you very often.” The traveller said, “No, our goods are too well known to be boosted.” That finished the business. The Christchurch man sent an order to a business firm ’ in Christchurch which was the biggest order it ever received, and it framed the order and hung it in the office. Yours, etc., BLACK FACE. Cheviot. June 8. 1936.