FOR ADVANCE OF WELLINGTON

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 145, 15 March 1939, Page 10

FOR ADVANCE OF WELLINGTON

Chamber Of Commerce Contribution

QUESTION OF TRANSPORT BY SEA AND AIR

“This chamber is about the same age as Parliament, it is 1-1 years older than the city council, and 24 years older than the harbour board. During its S 3 years of existence it has been financed and supported by A\ ellingtou business firms and many estimable citizens have sat round its council table,” said the vice-president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Captain S. Holin, seconding the motion for the adoption of the report at the annual meeting of the chamber last night. “We believe in spreading abroad, by all possible means, information regarding the beauties and wonders of our fertile country and in making known our own city's unrivalled situation, its industrial achievements am. potentialities, its exhilarating climate, its magnificent harbour, and all those other outstanding attributes which make it the capital city in fact as well as in name,” he said. “We take a genuine pride in the well-being of Wellington and in the achievements and commercial enterprise of its citizens, and, even for these reasons alone, the chamber must be looked upon as a valuable adjunct to the life of the city and should be supported by all. “During the past year the chamber has been constant in its advocacy for better shipping communications and air services to Wellington. Up to the present we cannot claim to have achieved' much success, but we are confident that it will not be long before transpacific passenger steamers and flying-boats will be calling here, if only for the more economic distribution costs and convenience of the Dominion as a whole.”