RATES FOR CARRYING N.Z. PRODUCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 13, 16 January 1946, Page 3

RATES FOR CARRYING N.Z. PRODUCE

TALKS WITH SHIPPING INTERESTS (P-A.) Wellington, Jan. 15. Among matters under discussion between the Government and representatives of the British shipping lines now in Wellington were rates charged for carrying New Zealand produce to Britain, said the Deputy-Prime Minister, Mr. Nash, when welcoming Mr. Basil Sanderson, managing-director of lhe Shaw Savill and Albion Co., and president of the International Shipping Federation, and Mr. T. F. Tallents, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Shipping Co., at a reception by the Government in Wellington to-day. Mr. Nash said that he had been in negotiation with British shipping prin cipals about such rates ‘in 1939, but the discussions had been interrupted by the war. They were now being renewed.

Mr. Nash also welcomed MajorGenerai R. P. Pakenham-Walsh, ot the Eastern Group Supply Council, who is accompanying the British supply mission now in the Dominion, as well as the masters and chief engineers of a number of overseas vessels at present, at Wellington. Mr. Nash paid a tribute to the work done by the principal guests, with other British shipping leaders, in keeping the lines of commerce moving in the war years.

Referring to the resumption of negotiations on shipping rates, Mr. Sanderson. said that, what had occurred in 1939 was only a “marital difference.” It had not been “a divorce” and he was confident it would be settled in the near future. It was remarkable, he said, what development there had been In New Zealand production. One could see going away from the port of Auckland alone five or six times the amount of butter which went from the whole of the Dominion not. many years ago.

Mr. Tallents said his company owed its origin to a band of New Zealand pioneers in Christchurch, though since those days some of its activities had been transferred to the other side of the world. They had come to try and find out what types of ship were needed for New Zealand’s trade and what would have tn ho handled.