DOMINION’S PRODUCE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 380, 11 March 1937, Page 5

DOMINION’S PRODUCE

LANCASHIRE TRADE SHIPPING AND MARKETS Mr. W. Nash at Manchester. Press Association—-oopyrrght. (Received 12.15 p.m.) London, March 11. Mr W. Nash, New Zealand Ministor of Finar.ee nd Marketing, mhs in Manchester to-day. After calling on the Lord Mayor, Mr Nash accompanied the chairman. Sir

Frederick West, on a trip to the Manchester Ship Canal, where h inspected the storage and berthage facilities and met the Produce Section of th • Chamber of Commerce, with whom he ditcussed a two-way trade. Mr Nash said that New Zealand would follow the most economic way of shiipiping, and marketing, produce to Manchester.

His report on the Canal’s facilities will be forwarded to the New "Zealand High Commissioner’*' London.

Mr Nash promised to remove as far as possible what the Lancashire wholesale merchant.' regard as unjust and uneconomic in marketing procedure. He added that he would do his utmost to extend the purchase of Lancs .hire products. Mr Nath was the chief guest at the annual dinner of the ProvUlon Exchange. In a speech, hr said that though Free Trade at present was impossible, we must realise that the people of all countries colours and creeds' were one.