LOST TRADE
IMPORTANT DECISION BY BURNS, PHILP. -',
Bv Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright . SYDNEY, February 6Messrs Bums, Philp and Co. announce that as tile result of the Labour unrest in Australia the company has decided to build no further steamers at present, hut instead will endeavour to send island produce direct, to Europe and America by chartered vessels, and to , reduce its present island fleet. To attempt to. create a tfrunshipmehit depot in '.Australia ■ fallow . almost, impossible under 1 the ex-f isting > conditions. There is also a" danger of the substitution of;-foreign: tonnage for the Epsterp -trade, as the Malay States urgently heed frozen, meat. The loss of this trade may -be permanent.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 7
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111LOST TRADE New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 7
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