INTERCOLONIAL STEAMERS.
The Postmaster-General stated in the House that tie had received from the Union Steam Ship Co. a statement that, on account of heavy falling off in passenger and cargo traffic owing to the war, it had been compelled to revise its intercolonial timetable. As a result, a service has been instituted giving weekly passenger and cargo connection between Wellington and Sydney and Melbourne both ways. It was also running a weekly service between Sydney and Auckland, in addition to which there was communication every four weeks by the trans-Pacific passenger vessels. The company's experience was that the trend of traffic was via Wellington to Sydney rather than via Bluff to Melbourne, the latter service having decreased so much that it was run at a. loss except for a short time during the .summer.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2465, 7 October 1914, Page 2
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