SHIPPING SPACE
l/U.MBKU TRADE PROTESTS. (United Press Association- B.v Kloctrb 'telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day. at 11 a.m.) VANCOUVER, Jnn. 8. Claiming they have never been ahh tu get any space for lumber shipments of any si/,e on the Union Steamship C,iy’< vessels to New Zealand and Australia, as that Company has taken little interest in the lumber trade t< the Antipodes, the Associated ! imh, i Exporters of British Columbia met and (latly denied the statements of C. Irons, Vancouver manager of tin* Company, that space is available. All leading exporters, with one ex- . option, attended and iffianiniously asserted that the Company was operating for thirty years and specialised in passengers, mail and general cargo, and consistently treated liunbei as a step-child and had declined to handle lumber at all during certain months, claiming no space was availaide Lumber shipments on the Cmnpanv’.s vessels tor the last two were only five per 'cent of the cargoes. Under the circumstances, lumber men •laim they were forced lo petition the Government to subsidise a new freight service to Australia direct, as the Company's ships first call at New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1929, Page 5
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