PORT OF WANGANUI

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1930, Page 5

PORT OF WANGANUI

REFUSAL OF CARGOES

BY SHIPPING COMPANIES

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.!

NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 19

Mr James Hine, who for some months has been acting-Chairman to the Dairy Board, takes exception to a. statement reported by the Press Association to have been made by the Minister of Agriculture in reply, to a question from Mr Hogan regarding the Shipping Company’s refusal to load certain dairy produce on the lonic at Wanganui. The report attributes to the Chairman of the Board a statement that it was not the Board that was responsible, but the shipping company which insisted on the conditions in the contract, one of which was that Wanganui should not be a port of loading.

Mr Hine states that the Wanganui Harbour Board, which also controls cold stores there, has beell giving special inducements in order to divert certain dairy factories' produce to Wanganui, and as, at the same time, the Board increased ships’ dues, the shipping companies naturally conduit, od they were not only being forced to contribute indirectly to the cost of this diversion, but were also in sonic cases incurring payments for coastal freights which would have been avoided had the produce been loaded at Wellington. They, therefore, insisted that under the new contract produce would only be accepted , for shipment at Wnganui from those factories which had been shipping from there prior to November 1, 1925, or produce from dairy ifactories erected in the vicinity of Wanganui since that date.