IMPORTANT CHANGES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 232, 25 June 1921, Page 7

IMPORTANT CHANGES

STEAMSHIP SERVICES OUT OF SYDNEY INCREASED EXPENDITURE AND LESS TRADE By Telegraph—Bresg Association— Copyright Sydney, June 24. Giving to the falling off in trade and the increasing expenditure, it is stated that important changes are pending in the New Zealand and Hobart steamship services out. of Sydney. Though nothing definite, is announced, it is rumoured that the Union Company and tho Hud-dart-Parker Company are arranging for a ten days’, instead of a weekly, service from Sydney to Wellington, Sydney to Auckland, and Sydney to Hobart, beginning next month. It is also stated that boats from Wellington will, make Sydney their terminal port, and not proceed to Hobart, in consequence of the new Navigation Act, which will operate on all boats running in the intor-State trade.—Press Assn.

Melbourne, Juno 24. Referring to the proposed reductions in the shipping services, Mr. Appleton, of the Inter-Srate Shipowners’ Federation, stated that the increased expenditure involved in conforming with the Navigation Act made it impossible for shipowners to maintain some of the services at their present strength. A reduction in the services between. Sydney and New Zealand and other ports was inevitable.— Press Assn.