BURNS, PHILP & CO.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2444, 24 April 1915, Page 9

BURNS, PHILP & CO.

EXTENSION TO NEW ZEALAND,

OFFICE SECURED IN WELLINGTON

Anyono who knows anything about tho mercantile business of Australia is aware of tho extent and importance of tho firm of Burns, Philp, and Co., one of the largest shipping, commercial, and tourist companies doing business on tho continent across tho narrow seas "i t UI ? Sea Islands. And tho fact that they are to extend their business to New Zealand will be received with the greatest interest among the business and travelling publio of thei Dominion. Tho company's service radiates from Sydney and Melbourne, and extends throughout tho islands of the Western Pacific/ northward to I apua, Java, and Singapore. The company has a capital of £2,000,000, and is represented by twenty-five branches, scattered throughout the big area operated in. Further, the company acts_ as agents for the Nippon \usen Kaisha (Japanese) Line of steamers, the British India Companv, tho A.U.S.N. Company, tho Pacific Mail S.S. Company, the Yoyo Kisen Kaisha Line, and other steamship and railway lines which thread themselves throughout the world's ocean and land ways. The directors are Colonel the Hon. James Burns (chairman and managing director) the lit. Hon. Lord luclhcape, Sir James Fairfax, Messrs. James Forsyth, Theodore Amsden, Adam Forsyth, and Senator J .T. Walter.

.llio firm has already secured an office : m the Commercial Bank Chambers, on Lambton Quay, and Mr. D. A. Ferguson, until recently assistant manager at Melbourne, is in Wellington making arrangements to commence business here.

[ Mr. Ferguson states that the firm intends to devote a good deal of attention to the tourist business, opening up to New Zealauders and others now possibilities in Pacific Island and Australian tours, and in the latter connection announces that the firm has been appointed to act as the agents of iho New South Wales Government in New Zealand. ; The company's extensive operations in the East, too enable them to offer special facilities for travel and trade in that direction. The fact that England and her Allies at present control the islands until last year under the rule of Germany offers up a wide field for enterprise. That the Burns, Philp Company has already established direct communication between Australian and German (until recently) New Guinea, and the Marshall Group is an indication of the manner in which Australasia will benefit by the acquisition of these wide-flung Pacific lands, of which comparatively little is known in this country. Tours to the East are being made a specialty, and personallyconducted tours are included in the company's policy for the future, which are likely to be popular as such excursions to Europe ,are at present out of the range or possibility.