Daily Service to Auckland.
GOVERNMENT ACTION URGED. The Postmaster-General was urged by Mr Kidd on Wednesday to endeavour to arrange with the shipping companies to continue. tire daily service between Onehunga and New t'tyinoutli. The member lor AucWaml pointed out that the mail-train service between Wellington and New riymouth loses mucli of its value to Auckland if the daily service of lhe steamers is not kept up. Sir .Joseph Ward saiJ the steamship companies have been unable to continue 'the daily, service throughout the winter on the ground that the traffic during ihe greater part of the winter is not a paying one. The Department does not regard it. as necessary to directly subsidise the Steamship companies in order to main am the daily service throughout the winter. In view of the heavy, expenditure incurred in establishing daily express services Neitf 'ply, I ( I l loul ' 1 ; jj;, i s . Wug considered whether the lutanekai should not he put on tho nights thai steamers do not connc-l
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7878, 21 July 1905, Page 2
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167Daily Service to Auckland. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7878, 21 July 1905, Page 2
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