PASSENGER TRADE.
DESCRIBED AS DEPLORABLE, j LONDON, December 20. j "Australia has youth's resilience and f wis rapidly correct economic mistakes. j just as England is correcting here, but j it is Great Britain, not Australia, that ) must make the move to lead the world j out of the economic morass where we ( have never stuck," said Sir Alan Ander- | son, presiding at the annual meeting j of tee Orient Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. j Describing the passenger trade as j "deplorable," Sir Alan said that of the i saloon berths offered on British lines j l&y than one-third were occupied on s reaching Australia, and only a boat 17 ; per cent were occupied on leaving Aas- j traiia. The freight earnings for the j year ended June 30 were a little above j Lilf what used to be regarded as normal- ! Sir Alan Anderson proposes to visit j Australia early in 1932.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 306, 28 December 1931, Page 7
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