SHIPMENT OF CARGO

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 68, 14 December 1920, Page 9

SHIPMENT OF CARGO

\ ZONE SYS'lfet .NOT AN ENTIRE . success. ;■ '■ ,; v . tirao ago, at tW instance of the Wellington Chamber, of Commerce, and as:/'the'.result cj carts-laden .with ..cnrgo for shipment being frequently delayed, it was decided n. zone ■ svstfmi. whereby cargo would bo shipped as nearly as possible' to a. scheduled time, accordins to destination. Apparently this arrangement .has not»bron an unqualified success,, for at yesterday's meeting of tho Council.'of. the'- Chamljer Jlr. K. E, Sinclair, asked if thq zone system of loading was boing observed..' He asked the question because in one instance cargo booked at 3.30 p.m. for the.: .Regains was being loaded in preference to .cargo which had been' booked at. 11.30 a.m.. ' . Mr. Vickerman said that the compan-ies-had been trying to,,run the schome, but had been -h.indieaDpcd by 'bad weather. ilo knew-'Mr. l)(ick had cxpfi-ioni.--ed considerable difficulties in applying the system, though it was one in- which ho found coiisiderablrf 'merit. t SIr. Sinclair:- Whojaro the agents for the Eegulus?

Mr.: Vickerinain:; Wright, Stephenson, and Co.

Mr. Sinclair: I went to W. M. Bannittyne and po. as the Agents. Mr. Vickerman: They (Bannatyne and Co.) have no need to observe the system. : lK Sinclair:i'Why? Mr. 'Vickerman*: "Because they have ample shed accommodation of their own." He added that he would prefer that tho committee left any further invtetigation of the matter until th.j arrival in Wellington of the,managing director of the Anchor Line, as Nelson was concerned in the loading of those steamers. ' .

_ As' Mr. Sinclair was persistent in claiming that he could' produco witnesses to prove that breaches of the zone system had been mado 'in the case of the Eegulus, the president' closed the discussion as one-that could be moro iittingly discussed at another time. |