SOUTH AFRICAN STEAM SERVICE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11491, 26 January 1903, Page 8

SOUTH AFRICAN STEAM SERVICE.

TO THK EDITOR OF THE PRESS. gi r> —From time to time you have drawn the attention of the public to -the manner in which tbe above service is being conducted, and Sir Joseph Ward, who (with Mr Seddorr) is responsible for the service, hae written or spoken in defence erf the action of the Government in subsidising steamers to carry the produce of our comp<; ti tore to South Africa. Sir Joseph Ward recently stated that the steamere could not load cargo at Australian ports, but the enclosed copy of tbe Devon's, manifest of cargo shipped at Sydney does not bear out his contention, and it is clear that the service is being run without any regard to the interests of this colony. It has become such a habit with Mr tieddon and Sir J. Ward to presume upon tbp ignorance and credulity of the electors of the colony, that they have at length got to look upon them as children, for whom any yarn is quite good enough, and they evidently consider that they can go to any kngths to suit thir own ends.

Surely it i-s ridiculous for us to pay a subsidy for steamers to carry our cargo to .South Africa when, in many instances, in? cargo is ninety days reaching its destination- Before the first cargo that wae put on board the Devon reaches Capetown, probably more time will have elapsed than if it had gone by sailing vessel. It will probably ha news to many that the service is being ran enjtfely in the interest of the great.. African meat monopolists; that moot of the cargo carried by ths steamers belongs directly or indirectly to them, and that one of their great objects is to prevent any general trade springing up between people <o>s this colony and South Africa, as by allowing such a trade to arise they would be endangering their own monopoly.—Yours, ONE WHO KNOWS. [Extract from "Otago Daily Times" of January 23rd.] ''From Australian papers it appears that the Devon, the first of the steamers which New Zealand is subsidising to tarry products of this colony to South Africa, took on board at Sydney the following cargo for that country: —1610 boxes butter, 5000 carcases mutton. 57 cases hares, 175 bates leather, 733 sides veal, 100 crates rabbits, 30 sundries, 260 cases preserved meats, 57 packages casings. 10 cases cheese. 12 do enkes, 140 crates poultry, 185 hides. 30 cylinders ammonia. 18 packages vehicles, aid a quantity of timber. Furthermore, it would eeem that her fir-rt port of call in tSoutti Africa will be Beira, hundreds of miles from the ports to "which her owners have contracted with the New Zea!u»l Govern- | ment to send her."

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