THE SUFZ MAIL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12765, 16 June 1911, Page 5

THE SUFZ MAIL.

■ •■_ —— .: ■.v-, . WELLINGTON WANTS TO BE' DIS-

TRIBUTING CENTRE

(Per. Press Association;). "'" WELLINGTON, June 15

"The various- Chambers of, .Commerce in New Zealand are being circularised by the Wellington- Chamber of Commerce with reference to its proposal that Wellington -should be made the distributing port; for the inward Suez in ail. Tlio Chamber considers that '"."strong representations should be made to^thc Goyernfiient and the _ steamship companies concerned, urging the desirableness of an/angoments being made for the steamer carrying that mail to leave Sydney on Mondays, so" as to ve&h. Wellington .'on Friday moVnih^, as Xhereby [Auckland uould receive its iiiail sooneij ihan at present, while the rest of the p}otiiihion. v. ould aJsb receive a distinrt advantage from this altered agreement.! S ,'f^: ';.- Mr.-,Ctf-^CaiTiJ^^ting^eerofeiin'. of the Wollin<iton Chamber, in: the cir(iilr,r Avhich has been issued to 6ther H Chambers says, "You will readily see that if this proposal wore carried out a | t-ry considei-aiile improvement would lo^ effe-tprl, and my Counril is assured (in very good authority that the scheme is quite workable, the only practical obstacle, jieinrr that possibly it might ne:e ; ssitatbv the vessels engaged in the servi.-o coalinpr at dearer mai-kets than at present, and therefore some increased subsidy become necessary, but this would not be a very material inrrease on the present amount. TVIy Council would be clad if your Chamber would consider the -subject :and favour us with an expression of qpinion on the j-roposal at as early a date as possible as they would like to know that they had the sympathy and support of a largo, majority of-the other Chambers tiirqiifihout the Dominion (to whom similar letters have been sent) before npproa,"hmg the Government., and steamship companies." .',;