MUTUAL INTERESTS
SOUTH AND WELLINGTON SHIPPING AND AIR SERVICES (Peh United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 19. “ I think on broad lines we should support any part of New Zealand which wants an adequate service,” said Captain S. Holm at to-night’s meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, when a communication was received from the Southland Progress League asking if the chamber would join it in a dermta tion to the Prime Minister on Thursday asking for a Government subsidy to enable an all-the-year shipping service to be maintained between the South Island and Melbourne. Reference was made by Captain Holm to a sharp loss of trade by the South Island, which at one period was the calling place for most trading vessels. The trade now was gradually drifting north. It was a serious matter for the South Island, and one in which no parochial spirit should be shown. Mr M. G. C. McCaul emphasised that both Wellington and Southland were battling for something in their mutual interests—a trans-Tasman air terminal and a continuous shipping service. On the question of mutual interest, it was to their ad vantage to get together. Captain Holm was appointed to represent the chamber on the deputation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23556, 20 July 1938, Page 12
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