PORT OF LONDON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2007, 14 March 1914, Page 8

PORT OF LONDON.

■ .MR. J. H. ESTII/L AT DUNEDIN. (Bjt .Telesxoph.-Press Association.) '.*■■ .Dunodin.. March 13. Mr. J. H.Estilh commercial superintendent of the Port of London Authority, addressed tho Chamber of Comrccrco this afternoon on the subject of trade with London. In the course of his address .he', referred to" the conditions tor loading frozen .meat at JN'ow Zealand ports. ■ Ho said' that the.meat was just as likely to get damaged in loading hero as in. unloading it tho other end, antl J.f,th.e authorities, in.. London ivcro prepared to perfect their arrangements for unloading-and handling, -ho thought that exporters here, should- look, into the whole question of loading ai this end. At several ports- in ,New. Zealand meat and other produce had to be barged to ships in roadsteads and canvas slings were urged to lift meat from the barges , to the steaaisrs. While the London authorities 'were'.' using electric ole-vators and endless land conveyors to discharge meat in London, tho New .Zealand an-, thorities wero in many cases rising , oldfashioned slings, which had' been practically discarded in Londai. Mr. Estill also mentioned that members of the Port of Lontbn Authority received nosalary or fees, the revenue' going towards improving the facilities ,at the port.