OVERSEAS TRANSPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 5

OVERSEAS TRANSPORT

PRESENT METHOD WASTEFUL "I believe the time is fast approaching : when the overseas transport to and from New Zealand will have to be completely reorganised. The layout of our Dominion is unlike that of any other country, of equal size and importance, and the j present mdthod of largo oversea freighter travelling from port, to port around our coasts delivering and receiving j cargo is an economic waste, and, while 'it continues, a reduction in the high freight rates on our inward and outward cargoes is well nigh impossible." I The president of the New Zealand Charn)K-rs of Commerce Association, Mr. JA. H. Maekrell (Tnvercargill) made the above observation in the coursa of his opening address at the annual conference in Wellington. " Our shipping will have to be organised to provide one or two clearing ports for the Dominion, with the collection and distribution of inward and outward cargoes carried out by a suitable coastal service run regularly and frequently to time-table to enable the quickest possible and regular despatch to both inward and outward cargoes."' Mr. Maekrell went on. "The construct ion and maintenance of dozens of port;; to accommodate large oversea liners, necessitating a Inigcj expenditure of money, will be unnecessary, and each part of our Dominion will be served by a ; similar and adequate oversea and coastal transport service."