N.Z. TRADE ENTRY PORTS

Evening Star, Issue 22718, 4 August 1937, Page 13

N.Z. TRADE ENTRY PORTS

CLAIMS OF SOUTHAMPTON [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 3. When the Minister of Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) returns to New Zealand on August 12, one of his early callers will be Mr H. W. Bevau, an executive officer of the English Southern Railway, which controls the Southampton clocks, who will bring before his notice the facilities at the clocks and urge that a greater volume of New Zealand trade should pass through Southampton than at present. Mr Bevnn is to spend a month in the Dominion, and ho will see at first-hand the -meat, dairy produce, and fruitgrowing areas, and meet those associated with the control of the various 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 the meat were transhipped at Southampton and railed on to London instead of shipping it to Hull and then railing it. Ho mentioned that £10,000,000 had been spent to such advantage at Southampton in the last few years that 90 per cent, of South Africa’s produce passed through the port simply because of its superior facilities.