PASSENGER SERVICE.
FROM BLUFF TO MELBOURNE. NEGOTIATIONS PROCEEDING. SYDNEY, April 24. The annuoncement that a passen ger shipping service will be established shortly between Melbourne, Hobart and Bluff, was made 'by Sir Walter Lee, Minister of Lands and Works in. Tasmania, who arrived by the Ulimaroa. He said that negotiations with Sir J. Ward had not pro ceeded enough to make a definite statement. A good deal depends on the attitude of the Victorian Government. Some form of subsidy would have t 0 be provided to induce shipping companies to run the service. The main advantages of the scheme would be to dispense with the transhipping, If it were decided to es tablish a service, the New Zealand Government would probably call for tenders. The services would be fortnightly, and th e vessels would run from Bluff to Melbourne, to Hobart, and back to Bluff. There was a possibility of mails also being carried.
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Grey River Argus, 26 April 1929, Page 2
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154PASSENGER SERVICE. Grey River Argus, 26 April 1929, Page 2
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