MELBOURNE SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19970, 3 July 1930, Page 10

MELBOURNE SERVICE.

MOVE BY HARBOUR BOARD. The discontinuance of the subsidy in connexion with the Bluff-Melbourne mail service, following the wreck of the Manuka,. was brought before the Lyttelton Harbour Board at its meeting yesterday, and after discussion, it was decided that all members of Parliament on the Board should take the matter up with the Government in an endeavour to get something done to have the service resumed. The matter came up in a letter from the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce endorsing a copy of a letter from the Postmaster-General's Department _in which it was stated that the subsidy that had been paid for the service was now discontinued. The chairman (Mr H. Holland, M.P.), said that strong representations should be made to have the service continued. It was the usual thing for a Government to subsidise sueh services, and _ it was not the only one that was being helped. If this service was serving an urgent need for the whole of the South Island, then it should be continued. The loss would only be small and some of the subsidies paid in the North Island were not so important as this would be. He suggested that all members of the Board who were members of Parliament should take up the matter with the Government and see if they could not get something done in the matter. The suggestion was adopted.