SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1927, Page 7

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

SERVICE TO BE REINSTATED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Postmaster-General (the Hon. W. Nosvvorthy) stated to-day that the Post and Telegraph Department had been supplying free notification of the movements of shipping to the public for many years. This had proved expensive and. although there was naturally a good deal of hesitancy in disturbing a service which the public had come to regard as a normal function of the department. the work had attained such proportions in recent years that it had lately been decided to abolish the. service. In view, however, of the representations made that the abolition of the service would cause much real inconvenience to those connected with the working of ships, as well as to the travelling public, it had been decided, said the Minister, to reinstate the system and. in order to avert the resultant inconvenience to the public which might attend the termination of the service, the Post and Telegraph Department would, for the present, continue to perform the work without recompense. _ Mr. Nosworthy added that the service would be reinstated at an early date.