WEST OF ENGLAND TRADE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 17, 23 August 1913, Page 15

WEST OF ENGLAND TRADE

♦ ' ' '■ PBODUCERS' ASSOCIATION EEOISTI2RED. (Bt TEIEOBAPH— PBESB 'ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, 22nd August. With reference to the proposal to further develop the West of England ports Mr. Lysnar informed the press to-night that he had receivpd cable advice from Bristol to-day that the Bristol and Dominions' Producers' Association has been duly registered, and is now in. a position to conduct business, aUo that satisfactory arrangements have been made to ensure advances against any produce that is sent forward under the scheme. There has, it appears, been further correspondence between Sir Walter Buchanan and Mr. Lysnar with reference to the reliability of the latter's statements. Mr. Lysnar wrote to Sir Walter Buchanan reaffirming that the storage capacity at Bristol was 200,000 carcases, and stating that if Sir Walter Buchanan could prove him wrong he would retract; otherwise, Sir Walter Buchanan should admit he was right. In a very brief reply Sir Walter Buchanan stated that he "had no intention of wasting my time in attempting to correct the exaggerations which seem tw be inseparable from all your utterances upon the subject." As Mr. Lysnar flees Sir Walter Buchanan's remarks to be damaging to his scheme he sent a cablegram to the Lord Mayor of Bristol asking hint to cable out authentically the actual cold storage capacity of that port. A reply was received by Mr. Lysnar to-day as follows : "Your statement correct. There is now dock and private storage capacity in Bristol for 200,000 carcases of mutton ; further stores now under construction.— Lord Mayor, Brislol.'l