FARES TO EXHIBITION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18456, 20 July 1923, Page 8

FARES TO EXHIBITION.

NO SIGN OF REDUCTION.

CANTERBURY PROTEST.

[by telegraph.— correspondent.] " CHRISTCHUB.CH.' Thursday

.. At a meeting of the Canterbury Industrial Association ; discussion took '.'• place with reference to the : question of fares and passages in connection with those people who desired to visit the British Empire Exhibition. The chairman, Mr. W." J. Jenkin, said it ' was often difficult to , get ; a passage, and unless shipping companies were to make special arrangements to meet the; case there was ; a danger that people would be unable .to see the exhibition unless they booked their passage months, ahead. He understood it was. not a question of shortage of shipping, as ships were still lying idle in some ports. He moved: "That members of the Canterbury Industrial Association express keen dissatisfaction at the apathy shown by shipping companies in, not mtft. ing : provision for extra facilities and reduced fares to enable New Zealanders to visit the British Empire Exhibition.!' ■ . Mr. Woolf seconded : the motion, although expressing the opinion that he did not think it would have any effect. He had heard that first and' second-class passages had been booked as far ahead as September of next year.. In one case, so he had been informed, a gentleman* had booked- his passage 25 months ahead. The motion,was carried.