SHIPPING FACILITIES.
(Special to Herald.)
DUNEDIN, this day. The Star to-night has the following: "Importers of Tasmanian timber complain of the delay in receiving shipments, and state that there is a lack of shipping facilities. /Inquiry shows that there is ground for cqmplaint, and that the position holds awkward difficulties. There is much more timber awaiting shipment at Tasmanian ports for New Zealand Khan a passenger steamer, can clear, and. not enough, to warrant the placing of a cargo carrier on ' the service. Accommodation for cargo on passenger steamers is limited, . and the average shipment of timber by ono of these vessjs amounts to about bO.OOOf t. The ordinary cargo . steamers take a load of 800,000 feet. The quantity awaiting siiipuienb at Tasmanian ports is far short of the latter amount, aud apparently the shipping companies do not lind it profitat>le to place a cargo steamer in the trade. So far as the Union Company is concerned, wo are authorised to say that they are prepared to send a cargo steamer whenever there is a full load of timber for one."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11250, 15 April 1908, Page 3
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181SHIPPING FACILITIES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11250, 15 April 1908, Page 3
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