WEST OF ENGLAND TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1717, 7 April 1913, Page 8

WEST OF ENGLAND TRADE.

I!UJ\IOUKS REFUTED BY ME. LYSNAR. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Invercargill, April G. While Mr. W. D. S. Lysnar "was addressing a public meeting here on Saturday to further the interests of Bristol and the West Coast ports of England for handling and marketing New Zealand produce, he received the following telegram from Mr. J. G. Wilson, Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union: "A rumour eirciilating from Wellington that Bristol lias only 10,000 storage capacity and tho docks are a failure." Mr. Lysnar said he was . pleased to receive tho telegram at such an opportune moment. Whoever was responsible for tho rumour did not know the true facts, and , the statement was totally incorrect. Dealing with tho statement that the docks'at Bristol were a failure Mr. Lysnar said it was wholly without justification, and could only be staled in full ignorance of the actual position. The Bristol docks are unquestionably one of the finest-I equipped docks in the world, that would accommodate any boat travelling to Australasia.' Mr. Lysnar said he could not do better than, quote'the opinion, of Mr, I'wke, tho Premier of South Australia, who, according to. a cable report of April 2, after >he had visited tho Bristol docks, described the docks "as a triumph of municipal ent?rprise." At Bristol, Mr. Lysnar said, there was cold storage capacity for over 200,000 carcasses of meat to-dav, and in addition thcrohad just been formed a new Cold Storago Company, which was taking immediate steps to erect an additional large. freezing store to. be available next sea" son. This was called the Avon Cold Storago Company. Tho Tort of Bristol itself had already prepared plans for practically trebling the present storage capacity at the docks, a copy of the plans for which work Mr. Lysnar had. The present movement contemplates utilising the storage capacity in all the West Coast of Knjland ports and in the case of Manchester there is a total storage capacity for 800,000 carcasses. The greater proportion of this storage is idle to-day, and at Liverpool there was a still greater storage capacity, while Glasgow, Cardiff, and Swansea have ample storago for all prospective and immediate requirements.' anil it is fair to ray that there is greater storage capacity for frozen produce, well spread in the West Coast ports, than in the whole of the stores in London. Seeing that all tho West Coast ports would ba utilised at one and the same time it was idlo for anybody to suggest that the storage capacity of one port should bo only considered. . , In addition Mr. Lysnar pointed out that storago charges at West Coast stores are less than half the charges in London with special concessions at the port of Bristol. It had already been agreed to assist this movement, and for imports of over 1100 tons in any one year the charge would be for cold storage of meat at the rate of Is. Gd. per ton per week, while at other west Coast ports the stores charge would bo 10s. Od. per' ton per month, as against London's charges of 22:?. Gil. per (on for the first month, 20s. second month, and 17s. Gd. for the third month. Owintr to multiple handlings and to bad facilities at London in;practice, the second and third months' storago in London was seldom availed' of for the reason that tho produce suffers by re-frcezing, after being exposed, wliilo at Bristol and Manchester the produce could be stored far several months without any deterioration'' whatsoever.