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SCOTTISH MARKETS

o TRADE WITH DOMINION. MR. NASH VISITS GLASGOW. RECIPROCAL BENEFITS. London, January 15. The fact that New Zealand to-day was shipping to Glasgow nearly three times the quantity of meat, six times the amount of butter, and two and a half times the quantity of cheese that it did in 1927, and the fact that in the past eight years two shipping companies alone in the Dominion had placed orders on the Clyde for 20 vessels, were emphasised by the Minister ; of Finance, the Hon. Walter Nash, at a luncheon tendered to him by the Lord Provost and Corporation of Glas- | gow on Wednesday. j The Lord Provost, Mr. John Stewart, in proposing the health of Mr. Nash, referred to the efforts that the Clyde Navigation Trust had made toward improving the relations between New Zealand and Glasgow. As a result the total trade had more than doubled

since 1927. Within the past year a record had been created in the volume of imports coming direct to Glasgow from the Dominion. Continuing, the Lord Provost said Mr. Nash would be interested to learn that Glasgow, like New Zealand, was doing well under its first Labour Administration. Glasgow, too, was doing everything possible for the development of trade. The Minister’s Speech. Mr. Nash, in reply, said that New Zealand was, in the opinion of many people, one of the most productive areas in the world, and it had not yet been completely developed. Speaking of the improvement in trading relations between Scotland and the Dominion, the Minister said that there was an apparent increase each succeeding year in the trade between Glasgow and New Zealand. Last year a record was created, when no fewer than 33 vessels sailed into the Clyde, bringing 42,300 tons of produce. The Dominion shipped through Glasgow two and a half, times as much meat as did Australia. The Dominion, continued Mr. Nash, was endeavouring to increase its sales of butter and cheese through Glasgow, and its programme for the present season provided for over 900 tons of butter, which was a record, and nearly 5300 tons of cheese. New Zealand’s operations, of course, had to be guided by the price returns which all the British markets would give. On this point the Minister said he was glad to state that Glasgow generally well upheld its claim to be a good market. Built on the Clyde. Mr. Nash emphasised that much of the prosperity of the Clyde depended upon the New Zealand trade. Not only did the Dominion buy goods manufactured in Glasgow and its surroundings but both its exports and imports were to a large extent carried in ships built on the Clyde.

For instance, since 1929 the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Federal Steam Navigation Company had had ten vessels, the smallest of which was 10,298 tons, constructed in Clyde shipyards. Since 1931 the Clyde had built eight vessels totalling 37,000 tons for the Union Steam Ship Company and two other vessels were under construction. There were other companies, too, whose orders had been placed with Clyde shipyards. The Minister then explained recent New Zealand legislation and the object of his mission to the United Kingdom.

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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4954, 11 February 1937, Page 3

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SCOTTISH MARKETS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4954, 11 February 1937, Page 3

SCOTTISH MARKETS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4954, 11 February 1937, Page 3