The Manchester Ship Canal

Southland Times, Issue 12123, 1 May 1908, Page 4

The Manchester Ship Canal

Mr Cyril R. J. Ward, N. 55. representative of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, has Issued the following circular : The policy of the Manchester Ship Canal Company is a go-ahead one, and of recent years representatives havegone forth to all parts of the world to further its interests and to provide facts and data relative to Chut great port and the possibilities of trade thereto. Manchester is situated In the most densely-populated area in the United Kingdom, and as a distributing centre by railway as well as barge canal, or coaster. Is unrivalled by any other port. At least 177 interior towns, being nearer to Manchester than to any other port, rely on Manchester for their supplies. The district containing these towns is 10.00U square miles in extent, and has a population of over 10,000,000, while within carting radius of the docks there are 2.000,000 of people. Tliis large populace naturally consumes a large quantity of all kinds of products, and these different commodities can be placed in the heart of the Midlands and the North of England at less cost, via the Port of Manchester, than via any other port in the United Kingdom. tt is the desire of Manchester to work up a trade with this dominion, and every facility will be given exporters and importers in New Zealand of opening up new connections in Manchester and the North of England. I am In a position to quote rales on all classes of traffics, tiolli refrigerated and otherwise, from ship at tiie Manchester Docks to the interior, and also from the manufacturer in the Interior to the dock side.

New Zealand importers will find that they will derive considerable savings by ordering shipments of goods originating anywhere from Birmingham In the south to the Scotch bonier in the north via the port of Manchester in preference to any other ports. The equipment of the Manchester docks is said to be better and more up to date than at any other port in the United Kingdom. Refrigerating sheds and stores, grain elevators, huge warehouses. and railway connections with seven of tho great railway systems of the United Kingdom, serve every berth on tiie docks, and the handling of cargo is thus reduced to a minimum. Regular lines of steamers run between 'Manchester and most of the chief ports of tii e world, and transhipment i» effected at Manchester at a very low cost. The steamers of the Eederal-Houlder-Shire lines leave .Manchester and other west coast ports for New Zealand every four weeks, and steamers are despatched thereto from New Zealand at similar intervals.

Just recently an Association of merchants and shippers has been formed In Manchester, with a view of developing foreign and colonial trade, and tills Association is giving the dominion of Now Zealand special attention. I can provide any inquirers with filenames of reliable firms in the north of England who are anxious to do business with New Zealand, and 1 sollcil inquiries in this connection.