U.S.A. BUSINESS SUFFERS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 340, 22 January 1937, Page 5

U.S.A. BUSINESS SUFFERS

RESULT OF STRIKE SHIPPING DISLOCATED Extraordinary Efforts Being Made To Overcome Handicap Press Association—'Copyright. New York, Jan. 20. Banks, business houses and shipping lines are making extraordinary efforts to overcome the handicap of the strike in conveying goods by mail east and west over the Pacific between Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

The Associated. Press ascertains that the inactivity of the Matson Line on the Pacific Coast is causing the re-routing of most of the freight mails to Vancouver, where only the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand Line is left to handle the unprecedented volume of mail with infrequent sailings. The Cunard Line states that considerable freight is usually shipped via the Pacific. Coming east this with the normal flow from eastern ports is going principally to the Norton Lilly and Commonwealth and. Dominion Line, and some little is being diverted to Montreal for the Australian and New Zealand Line.

The Cunard Line intimates that it knows cases of orders of machinery, automobiles and general cargo normally placed by Australian and New Zealand business houses in the United States that are being diverted to Canadian or European manufacturers for fear of costly delays.

The East Coast situation is less complicated, than the west because the Roosevelt Line is the only prinpical American group here and three out of four vessels leaving for Australia and New Zealand are British. The general belief prevails in the west that the strike, will shortly be settled. The Matson Line is booking tentatively for the Monterey for sailing on. February 2.