THE UNION COMPANY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9018, 4 December 1907, Page 2

THE UNION COMPANY.

! POSSIBLE CHANGE OP HEADQUARTERS. Per Press Assoication. Diuiedin. December 4. The Star says that the people of I)mj.edjn and Port Chalmers need have no cause for'serious "apprehension at the surmise of Wellington papers that the acquisition by the Union Steamship Company of the Evans' Bay slip foreshadows the removal of the Company's headquarters to Wellington. Both "at. Sir J. Mills' banquet at Dunedin and at trial trip of the Maori outside Otago Heads. Mr Ritchie, one of the Comnany's directors, hinted rhat a clmage of head-quarters were never likely to. occur under Sir J. Mills' inaaa game jit. The Star further points out that the Union Company have guaranteed to give £IOOO a year for 20 years to r wards any deficiency in the interest pavablc on the loan for the new dock at Port Chalmers, which means that their vessels will bo docked, .there. The present workshops of. the Company in Taranaki street liave proved inadequate for the Company's growing fleet there anil the interest in the patent slip is national; seeing that space on tl>e foreshore at Wellington is so limited...