THE HUDDART-PARKER SERVICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14927, 1 September 1910, Page 7

THE HUDDART-PARKER SERVICE.

SOME CHANGES FORECASTED.

(Pkr United Press Association,)

\r -nr August3l.' r , t 11 ' managing director of Huddart, Parker, and .Company Melbourne was"a passenger hy the Ulimaroa to Wellington to-day. Hp has come on a. visit of inspection to New ZealaH '• \ periodical visit," he said, " although it is five years ago since I was lust here. W« have opened a new office in Auckland" and I intend to visit that. Tile Zealandia'which was to havo como into the New Zealand-Sydney trade, will remain on the Vancouver line for the present. If tile contract for the service is renewed, then no doubt a. larger steamer will take tho place of the Zealandia, and she will be placed in the New Zealand trade. For the moment my visit to New Zealand is solely in connection with, affairs of the various oflices in the Dominion."

, It is suggested in local shipping circles that the company's new steamer Zealandia may, for some reason, drop out of tho 1 Vancouver trade, and in that event her services will be set free to engage in the Sydney-Cook Strait running now being performed by the Ulimaroa, Tho Ulimaroa,- it is stated, may then taker up the running of the Victoria, and, with the Wimmera, she' will conouot the AucklandSydney passenger and cargo 'trade. The Victoria, thus set free, it is said, will remain in tho Dominion and engago' in the East Coast trade from Auckland to Bluff. Nothing, official has been announced in regard .to the possible developments above outlined, but' it is understood that the company, in view of the possibility of tho Zealandia being get free from ,her present cunning,' has under consideration eomo changes in tho running of its boats in New Zealand waters.