SOUTH ISLAND-MELBOURNE SERVICE.

Evening Star, Issue 21721, 16 May 1934, Page 2

SOUTH ISLAND-MELBOURNE SERVICE.

TO THE EDITOH. Sir,—As one who is taking great interest in the running of boats and the beSt means of getting to Melbourne in time. to see the opening of a great celebration, so far I can seo no light. The various bodies are doing all in their power to arrange something suitable for all, but they are met with a dog-ancl-mangor sort of policy—take it or leave it. Surely there are other companies that could ho approached. From what I can see. there is a really good thing in it if some enterprising company Mould start a mixed passenger and cargo service via Dunedin, Bluff, and .Hobart: 1 notice the Wangunolla carried 937 passengers in February, and in March broke her .own record by carrying 361, and on May 10 left port ivith 332, and, according to report she is heavily booked for the lost week in September. If so many passengers are travelling by the northern route, about double the distance and at double the fares, ahat Mould it have been if a south and about service bad been run-ning:-1 The total would have doubled itself. It appears to me as if the Union Steam Ship Company is cutting off its nose to spite its face. Hoping that those M-ho are exerting themselves on behalf of the public Mill meet M ith success. —1 am, etc., Progress. May 15.