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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11146, 9 December 1907, Page 2

Mr W. Kent, of Bristol, wlio has arrived m Wellington, says that there are nine million people m the 100 miles of territory served by Bristol, and all have to be fed ; and he believes that New Zealand can have the trade if it likes. He comes with authority from the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the West of England port, and'with credentials from the Bristol Cliamber of Commerce, leading manufacturers and the Provision Trades' Association. He has spent many years m New Zealand, and he knows what the Dominion can produce, and what the immense district served by Bristol can take. *T am prepared," he says, "to give to the New Zealand exporters who desire to place their goods m the hands of the consumer special railway rates through the Docks Committee of the Bristol Corporation, over the ordinal y facilities available m a general way. The Corporation owns its own docks and its own dock railways — a Socialistic venture which is the only one of its kindi m the United Kingdom to my knowledge. The citizens have put a capital of over six million pounds m their docks, arid the rates charged are merely to cover the sinking fund and the interest of that large investment. We charge not on the tonnage of the vessel, but on tlie tonnage of cargo landed, which appears to us to be a fairer way, and it is certainly more ads vantageous to shipping. The dues are 1$ l£d per ton, and they have been put, m view of the rapidly growing trade with New Zealand, at the lowest possible limit."