SOUTH ISLAND TRADE
REPLACEMENT OF MANUKA
- (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post")
DUNEDIN, This Day.
As gauged by the Otago Expansion League, public "• opinion is that if the Wellington-Sydney steamer and not the Bluff-Melbourne ship Manuka had been wrecked, another vessel would have been speedily procured to take up the running, but anything will do for the South Island. Since the wreck of the Manuka the league has been agitating for a resumption of a full service on the run, and its hand has now been strengthened by the repealing of the law which prohibited an overseas boat from carrying passengers ' and cargo between Hobart and Melbourne. The opening of the Hobart run again gives the Union Company, the league contends, a chance of making the service payable.
In a letter to Sir Joseph Ward, the league states:—"ln view of the subsidy paid by the Government, an Act which increased your mana visibly, we still hope that you will exert pressure to secure at least a ten-day direct service. The tourist business alone will soon be sufficient to justify the effort."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1930, Page 10
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