SHIPPING -SERVICES TO AMERICA.
CONFERENCE AT WELLINGTON. I (I'RKSS ASSOCIATION' TEI-E'JEAM.) j WELLINGTON. March 3. | Matters of detail connected with the ! San Francisco and Vancouver shipping j sei vices were considered at length this j morning by a conference •consisting of : the Prime Minister, the Postmaster- ! General, Messrs Pacey and Wilson (Auckland Chamber of Commerce). J. G. Harkness and J. B. McEwan (Wellington Chamber of Commerce), a nil C. Holdsworth and 11. A. Mcl-ennan < (Urion Steam Ship Company , . The proceedings were not open to \ the Press. At the close of the conference?, tho Prime Minister, speaking to a reporter, said that discussion had centred round .three point*:—(l) A proposed flat rate !' for the can*iajro of daito , produce from i al! Now Zealand ports; (2) more re- j space on nil steamers trad- \ Anz between New Zealand* and San ; Francisco, and '3"» booking nhe;id for I space. j As a result of tlic r-onferenoe, a re- j presentative of the l.'nion Conmanr is j to meet representatives of tho CTimnber ! t>( Commerce and thrt\s!i mil det'iils ''■ with them. Thcrea.ter. it wj.i i>e jeft for the ropre&eiitatives oi the Govern- , nent. on th<* one hand, and of the Union Company, on the other, to arrange the detail* of the contract*.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14907, 4 March 1914, Page 6
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