STORAGE CAPACITY AT BRISTOL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9586, 2 September 1913, Page 2

STORAGE CAPACITY AT BRISTOL.

MR. LYSXAR'S CHALLENGE TO SIR WALTER BUCHANAN.

NO INTENTION OE WASTING

ANY TIME. '

In connection with the dispute that has arisen between .Sir Walter .Buchanan and Mr \V. 1). Lysnar as to the extent ot the storage capacity at Bristol Mr Lysnar cabled to the Lord Mayor of Bristol, and the latter 'a reply is jtuso to hand.

When Sir Waiter Buchanan spoke, at the Agricultural Conference in Wellington, it will bo remembered, ho declared inter alia "that regarding the storage accommodation in Jinstoi the statements made by Mr Lysnar showed it to be about douole the actual capacity and in many respects there bad been misrepresentation of tiie case."'

To a Gisborne Times reporter Mr Lysnar said he subsequently wrote to Sir Walter Buchanan that 'uns question was raised by the manager of the Wellington Meat Export Company (Mr Foster), who asserted that there was only sufficient capacity to store 40.(KMJ carcases at Avonmouth and Bristol, and that the docks were a failure.

"In reply," said Mr Lysnar, "1 asserted (it will be recollected) that the docks were not a failure and that there was a storage capacity at Bristol for over 200,000 carcases of mutton. In support of this 1 quoted a letter signed by the Chairman of the Port of Bristol, dated August L' 6, 1912, stating that there was then cold storage capacity at the Bristol docks for 100,000 carcases.

"In addition to this there are two other cold stores at Bristol, one owned by Benjamin Perry and Sons, Ltd., each having a capacity of 50.(100. Bosides this there is another cold store owned by the dock authority which they were then using and also a new cold store is being erected by the Avon Cold Storage Company, winch will have a large storage capacity.*'

Mr Lysnar also pointed out to Sir Walter Buchanan that the merits of the movement niuet not be measured by the storage capacity of Bristol alone, for they also proposed utilising the oolil storage at Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow, in addition to that at Bristol. ''We could.'' he said, "also if necessary obtain cold storage, at Swansea and Cardiff. So I suggest to you that in fairness to the movement you should take into consideration the storage capacity of all these six portts, instead of that at Bristol only." "li." he added, "you can show in any reasonable way that any of the facts that 1 am using are not lair or justified. 1 will undertake to publicly retract them, and not again use them. If you cannot justify your denial of my facts, 1 in turn a*d< you to make a public .withdrawal of your reported statements in which you question my facts.

In reply. Sir Walter Buchanan, it appears, wrote as under: — House of Representatives. N.Z.. 13 August, 1913.

W. D. Lyenar. Esq.. Gisborne. Dear Sir. I have duly received yours of Bth instant, by which you seem to think I am likely to enter into a discussion with you on the question of handling the frozen moat of the Dominion. In reply I beg to state that I have no intention of wasting time in attempting to correct the exaggerations which scorn to he inseparable from nil your utterances mwn the subject. Yours truly. W. C. BUCHANAN. However. Mr Lysnar felt so sure of hie facts that he cabled as follows to the Lord Mayor of •Bristol:— Gisborne, 16th Aug.. 1913. Via Eastern Week End Cable. T.W.P. Lord Mayor. Bristol. Sir Walter Buchanan, Chairman Wellington Moat Export Company, publicly denying accuracy my statement that there is cold storage Bristol and its docks for about two hundred thousand carcases mutton, alleging this about double actual capacity. In interests Bristol and this Dominion request you inquire carefully and cable me authentically actual cold storage capacity. Buchanan declines my request justify denial. LYSNAR. Mr Lysnar has since received a reply confirmatory of his statements as under : Bristol. 21-8-13. Received 23-8-13. Lysnar. Gisborne. Your statement correct. There is now dock and private storage capacity in Bristol ior two hundred thousand carcases mutton. Further stores now under construction. LORD MAYOR BRISTOL.