TRADE WITH AUSTRALIA
SOUTH ISLAND SERVICE.
THE OMISSION OF HOBART.
REINSTATEMENT NOT LIKELY.
[by telegraph.—own correspondent.]
DUNEDTN, Monday.
A recent cablegram from Melbourne stated that tho Federal Minister of Cus-. Toms, Mr. 11. S. Gullett, had denied that tho omission of Hobart as a port of call for the new steamship service between South Island ports and Melbourne was due to the operation of the Commonwealth Navigation Act. On reading the message tho secretary of the Otago Expansion League wrote to tho general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company asking the reason why steamers had ceased to call at Hobart while tho Melbourne-Bluff service was proviously running, and if there was any possibility of the Tasmanion port being reinstated. The following reply ha 3 been received from tho Union Company: "The trade between Hobart and Melbourne, to which the call at Hobart in earlier years was principally due, is nowadays reserved to Australian coastal tonnage. Trade' from New Zealand to Hobart is negligible and from Hobart consists' of timber which is carried regularly in cargo tonnage. There is no immediate likelihood of our timetable passenger steamers including Hobart as a port of call."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20386, 15 October 1929, Page 10
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