DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1919, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

DIRECT SHIPMENT TO DUMHDIN ' By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night A deputation representing the bash , ne*s .interests of Otago waited on the Union Stsaroihip Co. to-day with * *•» quest that, when readjusting the Intercolonial timetable, the company should bring a weekly Sydney steamer to Done* . din, thus enabling importers to get shipment* from Sydney landed direct, and ; obviating, to some extent, tha delay now experienced, also the extra, handling and lors of time occasioned by the transhipment of good* at Wellington In promiisng that the request* Weald ~ receive the fullest consideration, Mr Holdsworth explained that war casdltions still prevailed to a large extent. Several of the company's steamer* were »till under requisition hy the Imperial Government, but he hoped the position would become easier shortly. Two naw.. '' steamers had been purchased by the oaro-; *. pany, and would be delivered next;- -■ niorth, and three other steamer* had/ ' ■ bfpn purchased end would be delivered -' be'ore the end of the year. The ar« ransements under way provide* for a direct cargo service from Svdney to Dunedin, and direct communication',.., would he kept tip with Melbourne. The i & cotwpanv hoped, in the near future, to ,:' arnmjro for a call at Dunedin from time, to time hT <* r S° «teamer» from th*y-4j Pacftflc coast. V* •