EAST COAST PASSENGER SERVICE
DISCONTINUANCE ANNOUNCED. Pj TelecTaph—Press Association. Duncdin, September 7. Tho Union Steam Ship Company has decided to discontinue tho Dunedin-Auck-land passenger service, which tho general manager of the company maintains is "being run at a heavy loss. "There is," ho said'to-day, "a disinclination on ifie part of the travelling public _ to patronise the boats on this service— Monowai, Mokoia, and latterly tho Navusv (which has replaced the Mokoia)— and ihey prefer to leave these steamers at Welling .lon, take tho ferry steamers to Lyttelton, and come south by train and vice versa." The passenger' service is to M) replaced by two cargo vessels; but it is unknown when this service will bo commenced, as so many of the company's taits are aii present engaged in the coal tra<ie.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 296, 8 September 1920, Page 7
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131EAST COAST PASSENGER SERVICE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 296, 8 September 1920, Page 7
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