THE POSITION IN DUNEDIN .

Otago Witness, Issue 2784, 24 July 1907, Page 36

THE POSITION IN DUNEDIN .

One of our reporters cailed the_ attention of a member of prominent shipping representatives to the matter on the 15th, taaa learned that up to the present no actionr had been taken by Dunedin. " There is no getting away from the fact," said Mr X-, Stuart Ramsay, "that the «a*er»e* all lound are very heavy. There ha» 6een no» increase in freights on small vesseb .or many years, whilst the upkeep, lepamnjfc and stores are all higher. It must, however, be borne in mind that tiie condition* in Dunedin are very different from those, prevailing in Auckland. We bare the railway to compete with all the time. Tfoui will remember the preferennml tenff on, freight carried by rail to InveroargilU aa& the same thing was done in wgwd tot Oam&ru. It is very oouaideraWr cheaper to send goods by rail to InvercMpu «6w» it is to send them to Gfore. ' ■ Mr C. Hoidsworih (general manager of the Union aS. Co.) said: "We hvre bo¥ been approached in the matter directly oaj indirectly, and know no more about ro than what appears in the- wrtupatfew." ' Mr G. B. Bullock (manager of the Net*. Zealand Shipping Company) aaid he imem nothing respecting the> " trabstantiet stewashrfJ owners" who "are koehsded in tb«> movement." As far as he knew Ihe Ifcrgeir companies had not been approached, anA were not participating in the movement. Captain Sundstrtim stated that oireolar* had been sent round to various office*.by the association, but, so far a» he knew 1, nothing had been done*