NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 30, 4 August 1925, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING

INITIATION AND DEVELOPMENT. ts At the Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday, Mr. C. F; Turner gave a very interesting and instructive address on "Shipping in the South Pacific in the 'seventies and 'eighties." Mr. Turner began by drawing attention to the important part which the Pacific had played in the growth of tho mercantile marine of the British Empire. The speaker then sketched the shipping developments from the very early days of New Zealand and Australia. Reference was made to the initiation of the Panama service in 1866, but, said Mr. Turner, after three years the company had to give up, the steamers being taken over by the West Indian Company, which used to operate on the other side of the Panama Isthmus. The next mail service was one by way of San Francisco, and was carried out by the Californian Eoyal Mail Steamship Company. Then followed the American Mail Company, and the Pacific Royal Mail Steamship Company. In the middle of the 'eighties the Oceanic Company (Spreckles and Co., of San Francisco) entered the service in conjunction with the Union Steam Ship Company with the .Alameda and Mariposa. The first steamer placed in that service by tho Union Company was the Mararoa, followed by the Monowai in 1890. An outline was given by the speaker of the initiation and wonderful development of tho Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company and of the New Zealand Shipping Company. He paid a tribute to the enterprise and work of Sir James Mills.