MODERN SHIPS
NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIAN TRADE. SHIPOWNER ON HIGH COSTS IN DOMINION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr G. H. Trott, General Manager of the Blue Star Line, who arrived by the Awatea on Thursday, in an interview today said shipowners engaged, in the United Kingdom-New Zealand. trade had, at enormous expense, provided many new and fast vessels fitted with the most modern and highly-special-ised equipment for the carriage of various classes of refrigerated cargo, including chilled beef. This class of vessel was very costly to operate and could be maintained in the trade only if all unnecessary expense and delay were eliminated. The excessive time taken and the high cost of loading and discharging oversea vessels on the New Zealand coast were a matter of grave concern to shipowners. He mentioned that his company was building three more ships for the New Zealand and Australian trade. They would be of about 11,000 tons gross and their length about 530 feet. One would be named the Wellington Star and another probably the Auckland Star.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1938, Page 6
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175MODERN SHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1938, Page 6
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