MANCHESTER TRADE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17955, 6 December 1932, Page 10

MANCHESTER TRADE

DIRECT SHIPMENTS INCREASE FROM NEW ZEALAND LONDON, Oct. 28. At the annual meeting of the Trafford Park Estates, Limited, the managing director, Lieutenant-Colonel T. 11. G. Stevens, revealed that the direct shipments of New Zealand produce to Manchester had been increased by 900 per cent, in four years. New Zealand ships, he said, were now going fairly regularly to Manchester, and tt? increase in the* (direct imports of New Zealand butter were strikingly shown in the following' table : Boxes. 1928- ... ... 17,000 1929- ... ... 34,000 1930- 61,000 1931-32 150,000

“The increase in cheese and meat has been on a similar scale,” said Colonel Stevens, “though even yet these New Zealand ships require more inward and outward cargo. We are now working hard to get Australian ships to come to Manchester; and although I do not want the sales of Now Zealand produce to decrease, I do ask you to get your friends to insist on having Empire butter aud cheese in place of foreign produce, because any large increase in the consumption of Empire produce will, of necessity, increase the consumption of New Zealand and Australian goods, and will help us to get Australian ships to Manchester.”

The movement for direct shipments to Manchester, Colonel Stevens added, was an attempt to combat tbo centralisation upon London—or rationalisation, as it was called —which was so fashionable _ a few years ago This had resulted in financial and general control being taken from the provinces and centred in London, with the result that shipping laid been drawn away from other ports. Luckily, Manchester had not suffered so much as other ports.