TRADE WITH HULL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1424, 26 April 1912, Page 4

TRADE WITH HULL.

OPENING FOB NEW ZEALAND PRODUCTS. Mr, Austin Wilson, a special trade commissioner for tho port of Hull, arrived at the Bluff from Melbourne early in tho week. In the- course of an interview with an Invereorgill reporter, Mr. Wilson eaid ho was touring Australia and New Zealand with a view to establishing hade between this country and tho pu't of Hull. "Wo want a sharo of your trade," said Mr. Wilson. "HuH\is the third of the important ports of tho United Kingdom, and so far wo do not get any of your produco trade. Tho bulk goes to London, while wo servo an area with a population of between 10,000,000 and 12,000,000, and you cannot reach thoso people so cheaply by way of London. Wo are getting similar produce to yours from other countries, :ond thero is no reason why you should not have your share." In connection with the frozen meat trado, ho said that the cold storage at Hull docks was sufficient to accommodate 300,000 carcasses of frozen mutton, and, niorccovcr, the stores adjoined tho quays. Thus tho produco went from the shin'to the store with n minimum of handling. Mr. Wilson further claimed that they coilld deliver meat from tho Hull docks to Sniithfield at practically tho same cost as it could bo done from London.

As regards tho trade-in butter, he said that it cost about Is. per cwt. to get it to Tooley Street, London, in tho first place, on top of which tho brokers charged 3 per cent., which-worked out at about Bs. per cwt. If it was sold to a North of England buyer one could reckon on 2s. for rail transit, added to which tho middleman made 2s. per cwt., and all these charges were put upon it before reaching the retailer. A good deal of this could 1)0 saved if the producers shipped to Hull. There were plenty of firms who tvore anxious to qet the butter trade, mid others were eager to gel frozen meat and wool trade.

Mr. Wilson will Iravol throughout tho Dominion boforo roturning to Dnglnud, vk Now South Wales and,, Queensland.