COASTAL SHIPPING
o OBJECTION TO QUESTIONNAIRE. INFORMATION TO BE WITHHELD (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day.
Strong protest, was made at a meeting last evening of members of the Auckland hire launch and trading vessels owners, against a questionnaire which the various Auckland shipowners had received from the Transport Co-ordination Board. The board seeks knowledge of confidential details of their business. Mr A. G. Bertram presided at the meeting, which ’decided to inform the hoard that the association viewed with grave concern the apparent intention to interfere with coastal shipping services. It was also decided to support the Transport Amendment Bill now before Parliament. The .secretary to the association, Mr C, F. Fowler, said this morning that the questionnaire asked for the balance sheets for five years, details of fares and freights, earnings, and passengers and cargo carried. Ho said that they ivere prepared to meet fair competition, but they did not want interference. Definite services have been established, and a large amount of capital invested. It was considered that in many instances the railways had boon extended, not to open up remote lands, but (to compote in districts whore business had been prosperous, and was served by coastal shipping services. They did not feel that any good purpose could be served by giving the information sought.
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Northern Advocate, 7 August 1934, Page 5
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