TO REPLACE THE WIMMERA
.. GOVERNMENT TAKING ACTION. In connection with the representations made by the Auckland Chamber of-Com-jnercb io have a steamer placed on the 'Auckland-Australia service in place of the AVimmora, the Hon. Arthur 31. Myers (Minister in Charge of Munitions and Supplies) informed a reporter yesterday that he had advised the Auckland ber of Commerce by telegram that advice lud been received that tho Shipping Controller, Australia, had • refused to permit tho Huddnrt, Parker Company to replace the Wini'mera by a cargo boat, as deswed. Consequently the New Zealand Government had taken tho matter up •with' the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, and meantime, after consultation with Mr. Bond, general traffic manager of the Union Steam Ship Company,' who is at present in Wellington, arrangements havo been made for tho Union Company to run tho Tarawern (several trips between Sydney and Auckland. In addition, special arrangements ha-o been made for the . Atua to. call at' Auckland in- August and September, en route Fiji to Sydney, thus relieving the immediate position, after which the matter will bo further reviewed.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 268, 1 August 1918, Page 5
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180TO REPLACE THE WIMMERA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 268, 1 August 1918, Page 5
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