Trade With the West of England.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7907, 24 August 1905, Page 2

Trade With the West of England.

A MANCHESTER DELEGATE. Mr James S. M'Conechie, ' who is visiting New Zealand and Australia for the purpose of affording full information as to the Manchester Ship Canal and the city tp which it leads, will be ip Wellington next week. Interviewed by a representative of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Mr M'Conechie said that steamers of 11,500 tons could now use the ciinal.

"There arc," he said ''within h radius of twelve miles of the point reach d by the slteamcrs over 2,500,. 000 people, and the population of the area of which Manchester is tinnear est port) is over 10,000,000. These are for the moist part workinj; people, earning good wages, and fond of good footl. The Argentine practically monopolises the meat trade and other foods as well, 'the United States and Canada, however, competing in the taker. The mutton that would sell test is just that which Australia could supply. The Lancarliire map ljlies plenty of mca£, l)Ut he docs not like it fat, and he prefers ls-»ia)l joints'. Mefipo mutton is exactly the article he wants."

Most of the butter consumed within the area to which he rc-ferre:! came from l*?nmark. He maintains th using Manchester as a port was the cheapest possible way of placing our wool in the hands of Hradford and other Yorkshire manufacturers. Special nrrangcinvnts have been made at the docks 1 with a view of capturing this trade. The comp; roies running steaawrs direct to Manchester offer rates wjiich show a shviflg as agaijlst any otjier port, anrl once there the wool is nearer the 1 great inniuifucturiiig towns thlin at cith r London -or Liverpool. In 189-1,: when the canal was oi>ene;l, it only brought 92."),0."9 t ins to tlu: then brand now po'rt. There had been a steady increase nearly every year year since, and in 1901 a total of 3,91i7,578 was carried. Kovv thit the new d oc ' ; s "fld tfa)isi t sivedts were oix'ii a further increase w as certain. Tl»e total area of the deck I estate is 40ft acres, with a water' space of 101 aci-CB, and ruavs> six I nillte in length. The Manchester cor- I position in providing cold stores, aibattp.'rs, ai'td all srfts of conveniences' o'ose to the docks, So that there will never to a possibility of want j of accommodation. I