TRADE WITH LONDON

Evening Star, Issue 22952, 9 May 1938, Page 15

TRADE WITH LONDON

i IMPORTANCE OF GREAT PORT AUTHORITY’S REPRESENTATIVE IN DUNEDIN In the course of a brief tour of the Dominion to make contacts with bar. hour authorities and shipping interests, Mr T. B. Toovey, representative in this country and Australia of the Port of London Authority, arrived in Dunedin over the week-end. He succeeded Captain A. W. Pearse at the beginning of last November, after 40 years of service with the Authority in London, where he was recently principal assistant to the general manager. Mr Toovey was in New Zealand nine years ago, and since then he has noticed great improvements at the various ports he has inspected, particularly at Lyttelton. The facilities there, he commented, were excellent, and Lyttelton was recognised in England as a very good port. “ The Port of London Authority has always recognised that the great volume of produce shipped from New Zealand to the Port of London forms one of'the most important sections of London’s overseas trade,” he said.” “Itis my intention to keep before producers and shippers in New Zealand the advantages of London as a-market and a port and the special facilities offered by the Port of London Authority for dealing with the trade with New Zealand and to supply to those interested in the vast trade between the Port of London all the information that they may desire. , ’ “By discussion with traders and others I shall endeavour to find out their requirements in connection with the handling, marketing, and distributing of produce in order that I may send Home suggestions for improving and developing the present trade. “ The Port of London embraces the whole of the tidal section of the river Thames approximately 69 miles. Within that area are the five dock systems of the Port of London Authority, with a lineal quayage of 45 miles, equipped. with the. most up-to-date cargo-handling appliances and provided with dry docks to accommodate the largest vessels using the port. The authority are the largest warehouse-, keepers in the world, and are able to store more than 1,000,000 tons of goods. Accommodation for a further million tons is provided at the many wharves that line the banks of the river. “ During 1937, more, than 62,000,000 net register tons of shipping passed in and out of the Port of London, and 43,000,000 tons of goods were dealt with. Both these tonnages are record figures, and the Port of London continues to stand paramount amongst the ports of the United Kingdom.”