THE MELBOURNE-BLUFF SERVICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20583, 5 December 1928, Page 4

THE MELBOURNE-BLUFF SERVICE.

TO THE EDITOR, -Sra,—lt must ’be gratifying fo - ’those who are trying so hard‘to revive the steamer service between southern New Zealand and Australia to hear that the good folk in Melbourne are getting inforested. -Prospects are brighter than they have been for many a day. and it niay come About that once more w* mav have a weekly service.- But, for. goodness sake,,let .us keep out of- the clutches of the company which has been so serious a Handicap to the, progress of our fair city to Let.us'do our best ;fo ®"L a COmpanjr *be great combine to the Tas^anf ° aßd P “ gers a <*oss

R Z° would suit the Union ®hip Company to get a heavy subsidy and run a service to suit, not us hut itself; and. doubtless, before long to get a disjointed-and irregular time m, rsvi 011 {!, •fcS . y is It that, while the other routes can run quite regularly and with a miniedin AT tC i£ PagC8 ’ - th ® Bervico from DunWl to i Melbourne is just the reverse? /* U i! , the . trade with the West Coast of this island 'Which Dunedin-mer-chants built up in. the face of fierce“l position from the north? Was it not .the iar -and unsatisfactory Service nrn vided by the Red Funnel line Howdid the company act when pressure Was’ brought to bear upon the managementto for months" t T° f+ ferry b - thl wim After promising to do this •i a ”, ex I tra fare was paid in those months oiif t fi, my oonfmued the excess throughat" year ’.«nd. actually charged it S on quen? trios 1 T ° r two of her queni; trips. Let us remember these things and avoid with all our might another grip of the corporation which craciously permits the Holmdale to run to Wanganui, but on no other route.-” am, Fair Deal.