NOTHING DONE YET
MELBOURNE-SOUTH ISLAND " STEAMER.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, 13th October. Asked by a reporter to-day if the Government contemplated making a in the direction of establishing a direct lino of steamers from the South Island ports to Melbourne, or had considered subsidising such a service, the Acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. Downie Stewart, said that the matter had been considered from time to time, "but," ho added, "no feasible schema lias boon put forward which would not involve the Government in an expenditure when Hie results of the sorvico to (he Dominion as a whole were not ; justified.'' ■ - ' • . " •■■ - '..
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 11
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99NOTHING DONE YET Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 91, 14 October 1926, Page 11
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