LINKING SOUTH ISLAND WITH AUSTRALIA

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 526, 1 December 1928, Page 6

LINKING SOUTH ISLAND WITH AUSTRALIA

REGULAR SERVICE WANTED (Special to THE SUN) DUNEDIN, Friday. The Dunedin Chamber of Commerce has been advised by the secretary of the Associated Chambers of Manufacturers of Australia that the following resolution was unanimously approved at a recent meeting held at Adelaide: “That the necessity for a regular direct shipping service between Australia and the South Island of New Zealand, which was withdrawn during the war. is hereby declared, and the executive be directed to take immediate steps in the direction of bringing about the re-establishment of such service, in which action the Federal Government be approached to exempt trading between the southern portions of the Commonwealth (including Tasmania) and New Zealand from the operations of the coastal clauses of the Navigation Act, and that a copy of this resolution be fonvarded to chambers of commerce at Hobart. Dunedin and Invercargill.” Tlie latter also stated that the executive was taking such steps as were within its power to re-establish tho service which existed for many years Defore the war on an improved basis, and earnestly asked the assistance of the Dunedin chamber in its attempt to achieve that object. A letter was also received from a prominent Melbourne business man suggesting that a British company should be approached to inaugurate a regular fortnightly service, say, from Montreal, via New York and Panama Canal, to 'Wellington, thence Lyttelton, Dunedin, Bluff and Hobart, to Melbourne. He suggests that this would be an attractive trip for tourists.