Union Steam Ship Com. pany.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 12, 15 January 1904, Page 4

Union Steam Ship Com. pany.

A PROGRESSIVE POLICY. MJNEMN, Jan. 13. A|i<out a hundred gentlemen, incli.iding delegates to the Science Congress and local business men., attended a luncheon given ny Hie L'uiiun Steam Ship Company on laauvl the new steamer Manuka, lvi'j.'g at the Oii'mdin wharf. .Mr James Mills, managing director, and Hon. Geo. Mi-Lean, chairman of directors, presided. The toast of the •'Science Congress" was responded to hy Professor IXiivi'J, wlkj referred gratefully to the liberal treatment received by dchyates from the Union Company.

Processor S|>encer proposed the toast of "The Union Companv," aid in ivspokinKny, Mr Mills welcomed khose presvul to the new steamer, which he said was as elliciviH as 'brains and money could make a vessel oi her class. As an evidence of the growth of the traffic tihe company catered for Mr .Mills mcutiouitd that U'uitng- the past seven years it lva.il added twenty-live u-snels 10 the Ikvt, representing HI)IHIU touts'. The ag'g.vg'ate lounu.ge ol the licet was now !):i,OOO (mitmg H.e past twelve months the compan,\ s vessels lua'd travelkd over two million miles, and the expend!■ure in that time had exceeded one mi. lion aid u quarter sterliny. The company was convinced that the tuelMie steamer had come to stav ai..:l tlvreioiv had omorea one -now in -the course of construction) for the MeiliMirne-Lau-nceston service ' the tviiiit.iin.ii.t ~....! " ' .lHJiiintut proved a uommercial success _huh.lt warranted in saving b.a witlvin the next few years thet would see n turllMie steamer cm |)k>yii.l in the company's intercolun m' l L** M a,u ',' l "'' : ™ KUBral in t. ~ v scrva-c beta,,.,, l.ytteHon and WWliiiKjlon. (Aj.planse.)