TRADE WITH ORIENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 162, 11 July 1930, Page 15

TRADE WITH ORIENT.

PROPOSED SHIPPING SERVICE JAPANESE COMPANY'S INTENTIONS There are possibilities of trade with the East being developed, as the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Shipping Line of Japan contemplates establishing a regular service between Melbourne and New Zealand. If the service is inaugurated it will mean an extension of the company's existing service between Japan and Eastern Australian ports. A statement indicating that the service is under consideration is contained in a letter received by the secretary of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, Dr. E. P. Neale, from the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Australia, Mr. L. J. Schmitt. The chamber, in a letter to Mr. Schmitt recently, mentioned the desirability of establishing a MelbourneAuckland cargo service. The existing irregularities were pointed out, and Mr. Schmitt was asked to take up the matter with Melbourne merchants. The chamber also said that it had received a letter from the Union Steamship Company, in which it was stated that the onus was on Auckland merchants to show that regular time-table sailings on the route would be remunerative. The company also expressed the opinion that eo long as Australia continued to be hostile toward New Zealand produce, it was unlikely that regular sailings between Auckland and Melbourne would be warranted. The proposed service, according to Mr. Schniitt,. was between Melbourne and chief ports of New Zealand. Auckland would be the final port of call, and the vessels would go from here to Sydney. Although this is not exactly what was desired by Auckland merchants, it is considered that it would create a certain regular service which might tend toward the improvement of other services.