PRODUCE MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 194, 15 August 1936, Page 8

PRODUCE MARKETS

OPPORTUNITY FOR N.Z. THE POPULATED MIDLANDS REPRESENTATIVE LN’ WANGANUI Changes in the control of marketing New Zealand’s dairy produce has raised hope in the minds of certain sections in the thickly populated areas : round the industrial Midlands of Engl land, that the Dominion will do more I than has been done in the past to foster direct shipments to the Port ' of Manchester. . Mr Noel V. Wade, assistant representative of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, Sydney, was in Wan- ' ganui yesterday on a short tour , through New Zealand. In an inter- , view with a “Chronicle” reporter, he • said that there was never a more favourable opportunity than at present for New Zealand to foster trade in a thickly-populated part of England, which, up to now, had been vastly exploited by foreigners. He had had most successful interviews with the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, and the Minister of Marketing, the Hon. Walter Nash, and was hopeful that further direct shipments to Manchester would result. He felt that the Government ! v as alive to the position, and would, 'no doubt, exploit every avenue possible to make the marketing a success. It was anticipated that Mr Nash would visit Manchester when he was in Britain on marketing business. Mr Wade indicated that Manchester had 42,565 boxes of butter shipped j from New Zealand direct in 1934. A [total of 81,308 boxes had to be drawn from London and 342,233 were drawn from Liverpool to satisfy a consump- | tion of 466,106 boxes for the year. A surcharge of ninepence per box was made on butter drawn from London and tho* drawn from Liverpool were forwarded on bills of lading to Manchester but landed at Liverpool. | As an example of the savings which i may be effected by direct shipments |to Manchester, Mr Wade quoted the average rail and cartage rates for butter forwarded from the main ports of England to 23 of the largest towns in the Midlands and North of England, as under:— From London . 59 6 per ton From Hull 33/7i From Liverpool . ~ 26/3 From Manchester . ... 17/9 It will be recollected that in 1931, Captain Wade, representing the Manchester Ship Canal Company, was in Wanganui on a similar mission to that of his son who is here to-day. Mr Wade will probably remain in the i city until Monday and will then move ion to New Plymouth and Auckland.