SHIPPING HANDICAP
OF SOUTH ISLAND. DUNEDIN PROTEST. DUNEDIN, July 24. In regard to the statement that the South Island is handicapped in regard to freight in comparison with the North Island, a reporter was informed that the English and American mails landed at Auckland from Vancouver reached Wellington on Saturday and Dunedin on Monday night. The. outgoing ’Frisco mail closed at Dunedin on Monday morning, and at Wellington this morning. The Wellington people were thus given three clear days in which to reply to their American and English correspondence, but Dunedin people had no opportunity at all to reply. Another point was that Auckland and Wellington merchants had a tremendous advantage in knowing months ahead that they could import their requirements from Pacific ports by subsidised mail boats, and knew to a day, when the goods would arrive.
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Grey River Argus, 25 July 1923, Page 5
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138SHIPPING HANDICAP Grey River Argus, 25 July 1923, Page 5
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