The Colonial Produce Trade.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 11, 12 July 1895, Page 3

The Colonial Produce Trade.

(Per Press Association.) Loudon, July 11. Mr Hotsou, of the Newport Freezing Works, Victoria, addressed a meeting o importers at Manchester ou Monday He declared Manchester to be the greai port for Australian produce, and, further that it would reach through the markei from seven to ten million people to whon; the colonies would supply meat, butter obeese and poultry in qualities the world could not excel, a-nd at prices that others could not afford to sell at. He suggested that a joint committee should arrange tc include the wool market with the lorkshire factories. A new company of steamers trading on the West Coast, conducted on mutual lines, was certain to elicit a hearty response. ..... Lord Brassey, Governor of Victoria, in replying to the toast of his health at a farewell banquet in bis honour, in refertino to the colonies, said it was always the essential duty of the Mother Couutry to give colonial products free and full access. . MfetBOTTRXE, This Day. The Minister of Agriculture stated in the Assembly the question of making Manchester the port of call uuder the new produce contract had received the careful attention of the Government, but they bad deemed it unwise to alter the former tender limiting the service to London. The Agent-General, however, would be authorised to accept tenders for other ports as well as London. The Age says owing to combination among the steamship lines, at present there is no chance of their including Manchester among tbe ports of delivery, except at such additional cost as would wholly destroy the benefits expected from a wider field of distribution. The Age strongly urges tne claims of the new direct service to Manchester.