PORT OF BRISTOL
MESSRS RISELEY AND LEWIS’S TOUR. Press Association. DUNEDIN, May 18. Messrs Riseley and Lewis, touring New in the interests of the Port of Bristol, addressed a meeting of merchants under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce to-day, and were accorded a good reception. The chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, (Mr J. Loudon) said that addresses had been heard from representatives of Hull and the Port of London, and the case had now been put from the Bristol point of view. New Zealanders should be proud that their little Dominion had engaged so much of the attention of the people of Great Britain. New Zealanders were out to do their best to get their exports to Great Britain at the cheapest possible rate, and also to get their imports landed here as cheaply as possible. Mr Lewis bad given a great deal of information in an explicit form.
The Mayor (Mr J. B. Shaddock) said that if the proposals of the speakers could be carried out. and there were regular means of communication between Bristol and New Zealand, the proposals should be put into operation. .
On the motion of tho Mayor, a vote of thanks to the speakers was earned hy acclamation.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8736, 19 May 1914, Page 6
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