AUSTRALASIAN PRODUCE
DIRECT TRADE WITH' BRISTOL. (Bee. September 16, 8.20 p.m.) London, September 15. Mr. A. Fisher (Australian High Commissioner), Sir James Allen (New Zealand High Commissioner), and the Agents-General, journeyed to Bristol for the purpose of inspecting a new cold store, which cost .£150,000, with a capacity of 200,000 carcasses, erected to meet the demand of tho growing direct trade between Bristol and Australasia.
The Docks Coramittco entertained the visitors ot luncheon. The chairman pointed out that ten million people within a radius of a hundred miles of Bristol would provide a market for Australasian produce. The recent doubling' of the railway freight rates handicapped overland transport from the London docks, and correspondingly favoured Bristol. llr. Fisher and Sir James Allen : state that Australasia was extremely anxious to e'neourage direct trade with the British coastal ports for the purpose of facilitating the distribution of products—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 304, 17 September 1920, Page 7
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148AUSTRALASIAN PRODUCE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 304, 17 September 1920, Page 7
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