INTERSTATE SHIPPING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 4 July 1921, Page 7

INTERSTATE SHIPPING

TASMANIAN DIFFICULTY.

*T CA.BM—PBEBB AW>CIATION—^OPYWGHT Received* 7 July 4, 11 a.m. MELBOURNE, July 4. Mr. Massy Greene, referring; to the ■ ■withdrawal of the Manuka, Moeraki, and Ulimaroa frorn^ the Tasmanian trade, states that he iff unable to under- ; stand why the' bessels' withdrawal has been attributed to the' Navigation Act, as the Union Company had made repre- , sensations to him for exemption from the provisions of the Act, which were granted on June 21. The Hobart Shipping Committee, .comprising representatives of commercial and civic interests, has sent repre- -. sentatives to Melbourne to consult the -'*■-. Tasmanian Federal members regarding the operations of the Navigation Act! \ The Tourist Director states that owing^ to the withdrawal of the New Zealand boats and the inability of liners to carry passengers on the Australian coast this will mean the death blow of the tourist traffic so far as New South - Wales and Queensland are concerned.