THE SOUTH AFRICAN STEAM SERVICE.
SIR JOSEPH WARD'S DEFENCE.
(SPKJIAL TO "THE FBKSB-") DUNEDIN, January 15. {■Sir J. G. Ward, commenting on the statement that the fact that the Government was asked for permission to have the Devon sect to Queensland, showed that the Government and the Company did not regard the contract as strictly a binding one, and said : — "We are quite prepared to ask the contractors to vary the terms of the contract to help the export trade from any port of the colony, but if we asked a steamei to come here for 150 tons, they would naturally turn around and ask if the colony was going to pay for it. I tbink the real difficulty is that we are right between the seasons, and that there is not sufficient of either grain or meat for export to Africa. When the proposal came to allow the Devon to go to Queensland, I was only too glad to accept it, for it „-aye us "an additional market,''
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11483, 16 January 1903, Page 5
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169THE SOUTH AFRICAN STEAM SERVICE. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11483, 16 January 1903, Page 5
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