MELBOURNE-BLUFF RUN
REGULAR SERVICE URGED (Per Press Association.) DWNEDIN;, Ms, day. In reply to the Union Steam Ship Co's statement regarding tho small quantity of cargo for tho, Maheno. on tho Melbourne-Bluff run, a. prominent commercial man states that had there been regular services "between Melbourne and South Island ports, consignees would have notified their correspondents abroad to have tho cargo transhipped at Melbourne, Owing to the lack of that connection, cargo has '■been carried on to Sydney and transhipped through via. Wellington for South Island ports. When a proper service is offered via Melbourne to -Southland ■ports, importers hoi;e would; undoubtedly give every assistance they, could to the servjeo, and the trade should steadily grow. If the company would feature the West Coast sounds by calling there, he was sure the MelbourneBluff route would become very popular,. This was proved on Ihe present' trip, when as a. result of a request to tho captain to take the boat to Milford Sound, a. charge of #IOO was asked for and, collected from the passengers for the privilege.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17176, 5 February 1930, Page 8
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