MANCHESTER MARKETS

Evening Star, Issue 17954, 27 April 1922, Page 9

MANCHESTER MARKETS

OPEN TO AUSTRALASIAN TRADE. Pro»» Association—By Telegraph— Copyright, LONDON, April 25. References to Anzac Day were tho predominant. note fit a luncheon to the Australian visitors to Manchester given by the directors of the Trafford Park Estates and Port of Manchester warehouses. Mr Marshall Stevens, M.P., who presided, gave the toast “ Anzac.” Ho said there could be no more fitting day for the representatives of Australia to meet the representatives of business men in Manchester to consider the conquest of an important market. Mr Stevens suggested that the producers should utilise Manchester as a tradesmen's entrance, leading direct to tho kitchens of industrial England. Sir James Mitchell (Premier of Western Australia), replying, feelingly referred to tho Australian and “New Zealand untrained soldiers, fresh from civilian life, who fought side by side with tho British Army eovon years ago. Mr E. Jowott, expressed heartfelt thank's on behalf of tho mothers and fathers and the relatives in Australia of the fallen. Previously the visitors had inspected tho Trafford Park Estate and tiro Warehouse Company’s wool and cotton stores' cold storage, engineering, and other works. They were particularly interested in Vickers’s electrical works, in which a number of Australian University graduates are completing their course of engineering.— A. and N.Z. Cable.