VANCOUVER SHIPPING SERVICE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 20

VANCOUVER SHIPPING SERVICE.

CONDITIONS OF FREIGHT AND SPACE. WELLINGTON, August 22. A number of Wellington merchants interested in the export trade to Vancouver waited on Mr M'Lennan (of the head office of the Union Compa-ny) and Mr W.

A. Kennedy (Wellington manager) to-day with regard to the new conditions of freight and space -for butter and meat for Vancouver.

Mr D. J. Nathan pointed out that the conditions under which the Wellington merchants were "asked to tender for space this year made it practically prohibitive for them to continue in the business.

In the course of his reply Mr McLennan said that the Union Company, was doing its best to meet the trade in the matter of freight arrangements. The trade had grown enormously, and the company was providing this season refrigerated space equal to 230,000 boxes of butter on the Vancouver steamers. This is expected to be much in excess of demand, as last season the total shipment was 115,000 boxes. The Vancouver steamers would be able to cope with all the traffic, although the space they had to provide under the contract with the New Zealand Government was very much less. The company would consider the matter of postponing tho date of receiving applications for space till a later date than September 1, but it would have to get the Government’s sanction and also the shippers’ in other parts of New Zealand to this. Possibly the date, could be made October 1. With regard to the matter of the exporter paying the coastal freight to Auckland, be stated that it was the custom in other countries.