TRADE FACILITIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 251, 4 August 1937, Page 6

TRADE FACILITIES.

SOUTHAMPTON’S CLAIM. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 3. When the Hon. W. Nash (Minister of Finance) returns to New Zealand on August 12, one of his early callers will be Mr H. W. Bevan, an executive member of the English Southern Railway Company, which controls the Southampton Docks, who will bring before his notice the facilities at the docks and urge a greater volume of New Zealand trade should pass through Southampton than at present. Mr Ilevan is to spend a month in the Dominion and he will see at first hand the meat, dairy produce and fruit growing areas and meet the executives of different industries. Mr Bevan will pay particular attention to the method of handling and shipping chilled beef, for it is in this direction, he said, he will be able to" show a great saving in time if meat were transhipped at Southampton and railed on to London instead of shipping it to Hull, then railing it. He mentioned , that £10,000,000 had been spent in the last few years that 90 per dent of South African produce passed through the port, simply because of its superior facilities.