PRODUCE MARKETING
MR. NASH AT MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL INSPECTED LONDON, March 10 The Netf Zealand Minister of Finance, Mr. Walter Nash, after calling on the Lord Mayor of Manchester to-day, accompanied the chairman, Sir Frederick West, on a trip to the Manchester Ship Canal. He inspected the storage and berthage facilities and met the produce section of the Chamber of Commerce, with whom he discussed two-way trade. The Minister said New Zealand would follow the most economic way of shipping to and marketing its produce in Manchester. His report on the canal's facilities will ba forwarded to the New Zealand office in London.
Mr. Nash promised to remove as far as possible what Lancashire wholesale merchants regard as unjust and uneconomic in marketing procedure, and added that he would do his utmost to extend the purchase of Lancashire products.
The Minister was a guest at the annual dinner of the Provisions Exchange, where he said: "Although free trade at present is impossible, we must realise that people of all countries, colours and creeds are one." He urged that the building of suitable vessels to reach Manchester through the canal should be discussed with shipping companies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22675, 12 March 1937, Page 11
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