A TRADE OUTLET.
THE MANCHESTER SCHEME. [Special to Pause Association.] LONDON, July 15. A large and influential meeting of merchants was held in the Manchester Town Hall, when Mr Hotson, of Victoria, read a paper on the colonial produce trade. Mr John A. Beith, chairman of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, presided. Messrs M. C. Thompson and Q-oodsil (of Weddell and Co.) made a strong appeal for the establishment of direct trade between Manchester and Australia. A vote of thanks to Mr Hotson for his paper was carried by acclamation. At the meeting at Manchester, Messrs Nelson agreed to proceed with cold stores immediately. Messrs Bitbell, steamship owners, have the entire machinery to develop a direct trade complete, and will begin in a few weeks. Mr Houldsworth declared that the beginning of imports direct from the colonies would mark an era in Manchester shipping, and result in the supply of teeming millions in future with colonial produce, without 'outside help. Mr Reuben Spencer, the new President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, and Mr Roberts, on behalf of the Municipal Cold Stores Committee, strongly approved the scheme, and thanked Mr Hotson for the paper he had read.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10707, 17 July 1895, Page 5
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197A TRADE OUTLET. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10707, 17 July 1895, Page 5
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