SHIPPING SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1921, Page 4

SHIPPING SERVICE.

REGULAR WEEKLY SERVICE FROM THE SOUTH. It is understood that the Union S.S. Company will inaugurate a regular weekly Dunedin—New Plymouth (via Lyttelton and Wellington) freight service next month. The Corinna and Kahika will be placed on the run. The former will call at Nelson, but the Kahika will not. Last year, it will be remembered, the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce took up this matter with the company, and waited upon Mr. Aitken, the general manager, when he was in the town, and he agreed to give the port regular connection with the South Island via Wellington at an increased freight rate, which, in view of the regularity, was agreed to. The service was duly commenced, but, unfortunately, did not last long, but the extra freight rate has remained. During th*e past few months it has been a case of either a feast or a famine, and traders throughout Taranaki have at times been seriously inconvenienced by the irregularity and unreliability of the service.

The importance qf a regular service with the south, and particularly Wellington, lias been stressed to the Union Company by the Chamber of Commerce and others, and it is satisfactory to record that their representations have at last been of avail, and that the company will in future endeavor to cater better for the important and growing trade of the port.