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Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 13

“I think the trade conditions in the shipping world are just as bad as ever, and there is no real evidence of their getting better just at present,” said Mr G. Thompson, one of the Sydney managers of the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Shipping Line, who arrived at Wellington on Thursday by the lonic from Southampton. Mr Thompson told an Evening Post representative that that was the impression he gained while he was in England, and it was not likely that a change had taken place in six weeks. The trade between England and America, he said, had dwindled away almost to nothing. During the tourist season in normal times the large passenger liners, might carry 800 or 900 passengers in one class, but now the companies were lucky if their ships carried 200 or 300. “These ships carry very little cargo, and I don’t know how the companies carry on. Some of the big liners make cruises in the holiday seasons to bring in a little extra revenue.”