HULL AND DOMINION TRADE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 16

HULL AND DOMINION TRADE

PROVISION OF COLD STORAGE

RETURNED TOURIST'S STATEMENTS DENIED.. -

(FROM OUR OTVN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 10th May. . A paragraph appears in "The Yorkshire Post" wliich has a human interest as well as a commercial interest to JNew Zealand. In the first place, it demonstrates the limitations with regard to .the geography of the Empire that subeditors even of influential newspapers at Home labour under. ' Tho article in question deals with trade between Hull and New Zealand, yet so prevalent is the idea that New-Zealand is part of -Australia that tho heading to the article is "Hull and Australian Trade." It seemsthat Mr. T. W. Allen, timber, importer, .was welcomed, .this , week at -the meeting, of the Hull Chamber of Commerce after a tour round the world. At the close'of the business of the Chamber (of which Mr. Allen is an ex-presi-dent) he spoke upon one or two matters of special interest to Hull traders. ' At Christchurch, in New Zealand, he, said, he -found out an agent for the London and North Eastern Railway Company, from whom he did not get a very encouraging tale. Tin's agent told him -that .'the company's efforts in that .part, of the world were "feeble in the' extreme," compared with what was being done for Liverpool and Manchester. The London and North Eastern Company had actually authorised him to spend the enormous sum of £100 a year for advertising. _ He (Mr. Allen) got a lot of information from him and also from the agent, at the Wellington branch. Steamers in that part of the world were filled up first of • all with meat and dairy produce, for which they were specially built and then, .-they took in wool. He found that wool went . only where: "he produce ■ .'went,.;/; aridhe was informed '■. th'it they had prac-," tically;no meat trade in Hull owing to' insufficient cold storage. '■■'■. Mr. J. W. B. Wilcock (London and North Eastern Railway), .which owns all the clocks at Hull), protested against -these statements. It ,was not correct, he said, and .he thought it inadvisable c that they should be made in ,the presence of .Press representatives. '"- '•'' ' , .;..AGENTS,.IN' NEW. ZEALAND. '

Mr. Allen said he" was riot antagonistic to the company. . He ■ understood that the provision of cold storage' was iiiot. very extensive,-and that there must be much more, "or Hull would not get the. "wool. ,He found/that Bradford buyers were sending their wool via Gbole. They shipped itvia'Londori to Gople, and-the freight cost them no more than via Hull. When ho; aiked. the..Bradford-, men- why: they sent their wool to Goole,: he was told ithat ",the Goole people loaded the. wool on the wagon for. nothing. Liverpool.liad- an,agent:at'-.'Sydney, who frequently/visited^ New; Zealand, and, with a>personal knowledge of the Mersey port he was able to. speak to the-New. Ze"a- r land shippers \with Authority;-..■> Mr;.-. AJ : : len said he camVtq;the"conclusion-that Hull would _ have "much better with'an agenton tlie spotJ '"'. •;,The"president {Mk Edward'Dumpulinj suggested that Mr. Wilcock should invite Mr. Allen to go ""round "the* cold storage plant and accommodation ■in Hull, and he would be eniighteried! (Hear,"hear.) The'xold storage at. the Alexandra Dock and'in.the old town was,;enormous, andthere was hardly a big 'nieat firm in. the world that was not represented in Hull to-day. As.for the wool imports, he'informed Mr. Allen'.that last year Hull imported "670,000 bales, - and that, no other port, except London, had anything, near that figure. • ' . ■ '

Students of the Aberdeen College. of Agriculture .journeyed recently in a snowstorm to Upper Deesido and inspected the Jierd of Aberdeen-Antjus cattle-kept by the.King' at::Abergeldi©-Mains,' and also tho modeV dairy at Balmoral Castle. The herd - haß'gajined'i'-name for itself-.: as ono of-the'; Best- of tho : breed. Royalty has for ;lonir-admired the beautiful trlqssy black Aberdeenshire [cattle. In 1867 Queen Victoria had sent to ■Windsor."for her in-^ spection. the famous ox Jifack Prince, and. she accepted a roast;off the animal when' was butchered. So impressed was slio with tho "brecd"~that- she commanded-the establishment of a herd at Abcrgeldie. ••■