Shipping Services Should Be Promoted

Northern Advocate, 20 July 1938, Page 9

Shipping Services Should Be Promoted

[Per Press Association. Copyright .l WELLINGTON, This Day. “I think that on broad lines we should support any part of New Zealand which wants an adequate service," said Captain S. Holm at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last night, when a communication was received from the Southland Progress League asking if the chamber would join it in a deputation to the Prime Minister on Thursday asking for a Government subsidy to enable a shipping service to bo maintained throughout the year from the South Island to Melbourne. Reference was made by Captain Helm to the sharp loss in trade suffered by the South Island, which, at one period, was the calling-place for most trading vessels. Trade was now gradually drifting north.. It was a serious matter for the South Island, and one in which no parochial spirit should be shown. Mr.. M. G. G. McCaul emphasised that both Wellington and Southland were battling for something in mutual interests—the trans-Tasman air terminal and the continuous shipping service. On a question of mutual interest it was to their advantage to get together. Captain Holm was appointed to represent the chamber on the deputation.