RIVAL BRITISH PORTS
EFFORT MADE BY LONDON DOMINION’S EXPORTS SOUGHT LONDON, Dec. 4. Behind the announcement that the Port of London Authority has arranged for Mr T. R. Toovey, principal assistant to the general manager, to tour Australia and New Zealand next year and lecture on the port’s activities is the story of a keen war which is being waged among the leading British ports to capture the Dominions’ shipping trade, says the Evening News. Mr Toovey hopes to increase last year’s figures, whereby London received 193,675 tons of meat, 85,865 tons of butter, 75,150 tons of cheese and 46,398 tons of fresh fruit, amounting to 79.3, 94.8, 95.3 and 66.7 per cent, respectively of the total importations. It is explained that the rivalry of London and other big ports became, acute last year, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester and Hull being specially active.
London has a trump card in being able to quickly absorb cargoes at better prices than are generally realised.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 8
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