SUGGESTION BY COUNCILS
Corporation To Run Ferry Service (New Zealand Press Association) BLENHEIM, April 18. A cook Strait Ferry Corporation similar to the National Airways Corporation is one of the means suggested by the Blenheim and Picton Borough Councils for instituting a modern vehicular sea ferry service between Wellington and Picton. Alternatively the councils propose that the Government implement the policy announced Ihst July by arranging for the National Roads Board, as originally intended, to provide the service. The first proposal was that the Roads Board would finance the construction of a car ferry as a “floating bridge,” linking the highways of the two islands. Subsequently the Government announced last July that the Union Steam Ship Company would be advanced a loan of £1,500,000 to build and operate a vehicle carier of the run-on run-off type but this plan was later discarded.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28257, 20 April 1957, Page 2
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