TIMARU EXPORT TRADE.
[To the Editor.]
Sib, —Can you inform me if the Timaru Chamber of Commerce is still in existence, as I have not seen any report of their doings in the papers for some time past. Why I ask the question, is that I observe from several reports of the Christchurch Chamber of Commerce that they are trying to do all they can to get the work of Timaru done at Lyttelton. They managed last year to get the rates of grain and wool reduced to a low figure for long distances to Lyttelton, so as to compete with the export trade of Timaru, and now they are talking of getting the rates more differential, which I presume means that they intend to shut up Timaru as an export port, I think it is high time something was done to further the interests of this port, and if the Timaru Chamber will not do it, why don’t the merchants band together and try and do something, or Timaru will be all behind the Times. Hoping this will help to wake up the inhabitants of Timaru to their own interests. —I am, &c., An Observes.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3304, 3 November 1883, Page 2
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