EXTENDING TRADE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16837, 28 December 1928, Page 12

EXTENDING TRADE

N.Z. EXHIBITION IN LIVEKPOOL One of the first, duties of the new Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman Miller, was lo open a fortnight's exhibition of New Zealand dairy produce, .so that Liverpool might better appreciate tin qualities of Dominion produce. "When Sir James Parr, tiio New Zealand High Commissioner, was here recently," remarked the Lord Mayor, "be .said Liverpool was splendidly situated for supplying 20,000,0C0 people in the Midlands, but 1 don't think the overseas people quite appreciate the advantages that would be gained by making more use of Liverpool as a distributing centre. We have the accommodation. Nor do I think the citizens realise what tlioy are doing when they give foreign goods preference over the goods of our, kith and kin. If they would only insist. 1 on procuring Dominion goods it would not belong before a direct shipping line between hero and New Zealand w T ouid prove a paying proposition." Mr. L. A. P. Warner, general manager of the Dock Board, also referred to the question of direct shipments. He said the board had been trying hard for the last six years to get them. The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress were welcomed by Mr. Alexander McFetyrick, president of tflio Liverpool produce exchange, who said New Zealand's prosperity was linked up with ours. The exhibition, which was a direct sequel to Sir James Parr's visit, was organised by the New Zealand Dairy Produce Board. It gave the Liverpool public a chance to sample New Zealand butter and cheese and to see the hygienic manufacturing methods of New Zealand dairies.