PASSENGER TRADE
DESCRIBED AS DEPLORABLE. LONDON, December 20. “Australia has youth’s resilience and will rapidly correct economic mistakes, just as England is correcting hers, but it is Great Britain, not Australia, that must make the move to lead the woi Id out of the economic morass where we have never stuck,” said Sir Alan Anderson, presiding at the annual meeting of t.lie Orient Steam Navigation Company, Ltd. Describing the passenger trade as “dcplorab’e,” Sir Alan said that ol the saloon berths offered on Britain lines less than one-third were occupied on reaching Australia, and only about L per cent were occupied on leaving Australia. The freight earnings lor the year ended June 30 were a little above half what used to he regarded as normal. Sir Alan Anderson proposes to visit Australia early in 1932.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1932, Page 2
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135PASSENGER TRADE Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1932, Page 2
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