CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 31, 5 August 1895, Page 3

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The Council of the Chamber of Commerce passed the following resolutions this morning:— •' That in the opinion of this Council Wellington is the natural and most oonvenient port of arrival and departure for the Chatham Islands mail service, and that the Government be asked to make alterations in the mail contract accordingly, the Connoil having reason to believe that both the contractors for the service and the shippers from the Chathams are anxious for the obange." " That in the opinion of this Council the uncertainty as to the establishment of any trade at all with Canada beneficial to this oolony is such as to render it inadvisable to pledge the colony to pay any subsidy to ■ny line of steamers trading with Vancouver unless in a re-arrangement of the moil contrante snob, a course would leßult in a reduction of the amount of subeidy paid by the colony for the oarriaee of mails to England." Re reciprocal duties — ''That the Connoil re-assert the views on this subject expressed in the last annual report." The report in question stated that a free interchange of prod not s between the various colonies would, in the Council's opinion, be a most desirable * arrangement. The Connoil, however, disapproved the treaty with South Australia.