SHIPPING SERVICES.
COOK ISLANDS TRADE. - A DISASTROUS EFFECT, - ---- | AUCKLAND, Saturday. It was stated by Mr Harvey Turner last night that the cessation of the San Francisco service would be disastrous for the Cook Islands trade. Fully half of the fruit grown in the Cook Islands was shipped from Rarotonga, and it was from there that the principal trade with New Zealand was done. The trans-paciflo cargo vessels loaded oranges at the outer Cook Islands during June, July, August and September, but the withdrawal of the San Francisco mail steamers, which brought probably two-thirds of the fruit, Would mean complete isolation from' New Zealand for most of the year, SUBSIDISED SHIPPING. AMERICA’S UNFAIR ADVANTAGE: AUCKLAND, Saturday. It was stated in a memorandum handed to the Government by the New Zealand Shipowners’ Federation in March last year that it was estimated that the total monetary assistance to United States vessels trading across the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia amounted to £485,321 a year. The San Francisco service is subsidised by the New Zealand Government to the extent of £22,500 and by the Tahitian Government with £2OBO.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 7
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