CARGO DISAPPOINTING
MELBOURNE fo ftffik &LAI& {!** Fri« AmoclbHor.) this day. Tfee Union Steam Ship CO., states that I the quantity of cairfto brought from Melbourne by the Maheno hmnfeta As•ppointingly small. With a capacity for 2800 ton*/she hta this trip only 662 ton* for Sour ports o| Ca% *f the pmvkras trips she. • had only s&) »nd 837 tons, respectively, for the last two tripe. The, quantities for the three Spilth Islandports t**e: Bluff, iflS and 40 tons; Dunedin, 311 and IWS tons; Lytfefton, 212 and 103 tons. In tn« absence of sufficiwt cargo, states the company, the passenger service the !i veswl give* mott«ntail .a.heayy loss, |: even w&h tha Government tuteidy. ; The Prißle Miniater,. Sir Joseph Ward, announces that,ho Kail been n S communication with the manager of f the Union S.S.,Co. regarding;a steamer to take th« ptac'e of |M,l|a>«ha W 1 the Bluff-Melbourne service. The jLjeneral manager advised that he w,a« Br tabic communication and was doing Kali in his power procure a luitabh
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17175, 4 February 1930, Page 11
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166CARGO DISAPPOINTING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17175, 4 February 1930, Page 11
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