EXPORT TRADE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8645, 23 August 1913, Page 7

EXPORT TRADE.

DEPUTATION TO UNION STEAM

SHIP COMPANY.

WELLINGTON, August, 22,

A number of' Wellington merchants interested'^ the export trade to Vancouver waited on Mr McLennan (of the head office of the Union Steam Ship Company) and Mr Kennedy (Wellington^ manager) to-day, with regard to the new conditions of freight and space for. butter and meat for Vancouver. . :

Mr D. J.. Nathan pointed out that the conditions under which Wellington merchants were asked to tender for space this year made it' practically prohibitive for them to continue in. the business.

In the course of his reply, Mr McLennan said that the Union Company was doing its best to meet. the trade in the matter of freight arrangements. The trade had grown enormously, and the Company was providing this season refrigerated space equal to 230,000 boxes of butter on the Vancouver steamers. This was expected to be much in excess of the demand, as last season the total shipment was 105,000 boxes. The Vancouver steamers would be able to cope with all the traffic: The Company would consider the matter of postponing the date of receiving applications for space, till a later date than September 1, but it would have to get the Government's sanction and also the( sanction of shippers in other parts of. New Zealand: Possibly the date could be made October 1. ' With regard to the matter of the exporter paying coastal freight to Auckland, he stated that it was the custom in other countries.