BACK AFTER 30 YEARS

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 24

BACK AFTER 30 YEARS

Shipping Line Executive The grandson of the founder of the Shaw Savill and Albion Company, Ltd., Mr D O. Savill, returned to Christchurch yesterday after an absence of 30 years. He is the first working member of the Savill family in the company since his grandfather. Mr Savill is visiting New Zealand for four weeks to make himself familiar with its shipping industry. He has spent four weeks in Australia for the same purpose, and next week he will visit the North Island. Mr Savill, who is with the management of the line in London, is particularly interested in the streamlining of shipping services. “Streamlining is a form of partnership between the producer boards and the shipping lines, and it has been shown by the report of the joint United Kingdom-New Zealand committees on the matter that it would be in the best interest of New Zealand if the parties concerned cooperated even more closely than hitherto to convey New Zealand produce to its destinaiton in accordance with modern trends of port development, cargo handling, and streamlined programming of vessels,” said Mr Savill. Mr Savill declined to comment on the port facilities he had seen in the South Island. Mr Savill was born on the St Helens station, near Hanmer Springs, which his father farmed for many years. He intends to visit Hanmer Springs during the week-end.