MORE NEW ZEALAND TRADE WANTED

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 264, 4 August 1937, Page 5

MORE NEW ZEALAND TRADE WANTED

Port of Southampton By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, August 3. When the Minister of Finance, Hon. W. Nash, returns to New Zealand on August 12, one of his early callers will be Mr. H. W. Bevan, an executive of the English Southern Railway, which controls the Southampton Docks, who will bring before his notice the facilities at the docks and urge that a greater volume of New Zealand trade: should pass through Southampton than at present. Mr. Bevan is to spend a month in the Dominion, and he will see at first hand the meat, dairy produce and fruitgrowing areas, and meet executives of the different industries. Mr. Bevan will pay particular, attention to the method of handling and shipping chilled beef, for it is in this direction, he said, that he will be ’able to show' a great saving in time if meat were transhipped at Southampton and railed on London instead of shipping it to Hull and then railing it. He mentioned that £10,000,000 had been spent to such advantage at Southampton in the last few years that 90 per cent, of South African produce passed through the port, simply because of its superior facilities.