THE EXHIBITION TRAFFIC.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8116, 22 May 1906, Page 2

THE EXHIBITION TRAFFIC.

ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SHIPPING COMPANIES

FEB PBBSS ASSOCIATION. Dunbdin, May 21. The manager of the Union Company seen to-day with respect to the cable about the Premier and the Exhibition passenger traffic, said the directors had had the matter in hand for some months. The chief pressure on the coastal traffic will bo between'Lyttelton and Wellington and here the Company is prepared to handle at leapt one thousand passengers per day. Id reply to a cable on Friday, the Premier was informed that the tl nion Company intended to put the Maheno on for the Exhibition running. Sho can make three trips per month and as she can carry 53J passengers, she could bring 1600 passengers per month, in addition to the regular seryiue of three steamers per w.eek, two from Sydney and one from Melbourne, each of whioh can carry 800 passengers, or with Maheno, 5400 passengers per month Tho Huddart Parker Co. will probably use the new steamer Eiverina, which has about tho same capacity as the Maheno, and will use a second special steamer if required. It is pointed out that on no previous occasion hare the companies been unable to cope with the traffic. The Union Company has had experience of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition and the Melbourne and Tasmanian Exhibitions, and has always provided accommodation in excess of requirements.