Direct Trade With Manchester.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7960, 25 October 1905, Page 2

Direct Trade With Manchester.

KOMti INTHIIESTJXd FACTS. Mr .Tames S. McConrchy. the special representative of the Manchester Ship Canal, is at present in.Duned. in 'endeavouring to .impress the merchants and exporters with-thva'dvan-tages to 'be derived from direct trade between Xewi fTfcalawl and Manchester. Mr McConcehy is an alert'and shrewd business man, with 'boundless failh in the future and progress of Munches I cr.

"My object in coining out here." he remarked to the N.'/,/jlvrald correspondent, ''is to initiate, stimulate, and foster direct irade 'between /New Zealand and Manchester, 'ami lc. get. (he products of this colony into thu Manchester market on the same terms as the exports of the Argentine, (he T oiled Slates, ;it>','l Canada, -and wtolioiil (lie heavy chaifge of forwarding them from Loudon. T have no brief for any particular line of steamers, and I hav<; merely mentioned Mm Federal llruldcr vessels in my remarks since I landed because thev make Manchester a porl of call." Mr McConechy (hen went on (o cxit was not solely out of rivalle with Uverpool thai the Manchester Ship Canal had 'been cut, but (o promote: the progress of the co.tt'.k'i-spfiming metropolis, invsflc(ctive of whnt other ports w;ere do-

"1.-iverprjol," ,hc con'li'iined, "lias more trade limit it ran accommodate, and is to-day hintdling trade 'that would g'o (direct- to Manchester, if

people only knew 'that we can olTer better shipping facilities than Liverpool can. 'IV Manchester Ship Canal leads to the largest" centre population in the world, for in Manchester ami the surrounding districts there arcyten millions of people. The canal was cut at a cqsl of fifteen millions of money, and"'we recounts* ilia! 'although it Is 'not paying very much interest onjthe cost of construction, still the indirect benelit lias amply justified (he company In intdertakiivgi it. The eanal Ira's •become deepened to 2a foet, and can accommodate the largest oversea vessels afloat. All the newer cargo vessels are being fitted wltlntelescopie masts ami funnels to enable thenv to negotiate the canal, and in addition the company has put in appliances for making the necessary alterations to steamers requiring it." Jfr JieC'onechy then proceediil to describe the network of railways in Hie locality nnd said in connectior. wii'h the handling of grain, that it was sucked on I of M» vessels 'by incans_of ipitcumatic tubes and placed in '■darts.or railway waggons nivj transmitted to any part of the t'nited Kingdom. There was 'also an ele* vator in line which held 1 three millions and a-half bushels of grain, and vessels could lie 'dis!chargnd at the rate (if .'IOO tons an hour. He then referred to the enormous increase in tin- (|uanti(y of grain handled during the last ten years, and waid AlanclaMcr was becoming a large centre for its 'distribution. As for cold 'air storage, minting down the canal there \wiv large stores which had bevn taken over by the I'liion Cold Air Storage Company. These were on the the 'banks of the canal where cold meat could be. taken out of the ship direct into the stores nnd put into the refrigerating chamber and then bito the waggons or cans and sent into the market.

Mi- McConuchy goes from Dunedin In ■TnvoiT.arg'i)]. „ m i then to Tiiiinni. ClirlsU-liui-ch. Xcw Plymoiilh, Xapier, dishornc. anil Aiicl.l-inul, rciu-hing the. last-named dtv in about a month's lime.