THE UNION S.S. COMPANY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 5

THE UNION S.S. COMPANY.

. ..... THE HEADQUARTERS QUESTION. . (BY TELEGBA.PH—SPECIAL COKr.ESPOKDENT.) Duneriin/ December 4. Writing editorinlly__onjJ2imediii_.and._tho Union Company, the " Star " suys: "We are glad'to bo in a position to relieve uncomfortable apprchousion caused. jn Duncdin by .incorrect reports-concerning the business intentions of tho Union Steamship Company. It is quite true that tho company have secured a large interest in what is known as the Patent Slip in Wellington Harbour. This step 'Wns dictated by the Tnct that a portion of the company's coastal ileetliaslts natural centre at Wellington, and the business there, as elsewhere, is steadily increasing. Extensive improvements may even be carried out at the uorthern v port, and the people of Otago will not grudge I ,' Wollingt'onians' £ho considerable advantages 'whichthey ynro likely to derive from such an enterprise. But when it is predicted' ! 'tliafc' the annual overhaul of the fleet will take place at Wellington in future years,"and even'that" the company are likely to .shift ~headquarters from Dunodin to the North' Provincial, eagerness is reckoning without'its liost, and drawing unwarrantable inferences from, the facte which really havo a strictly liinitod significance. The substantial ' guarantee given' by the company in connection,ivith the .new dock at Port Chalmei;? js, another;, of that fixity of intention as ■- regards the situation of headquarters'," upon" wliicli tho people of this district., have learned..'confidently to depend. The long and short of the matter is that the'\Vellinjgtbri rumour is entirely without foundation^. and., the inhabitants of Dunodin. and. . Egrt.".Chalmers, may set their minds nt r.qst,", . .