UNION S.S. COMPANY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5078, 16 July 1895, Page 3

UNION S.S. COMPANY.

The history of the Union Steam lliip Company is inseparable with lie rise and progress of the Colon) tself.and not. a little of the develop sent of New Zealand is due to th uterprising spirit always nianifestei iy this great carrying Company .'ho birth of the Union S.S. Com wny took place in the early sixties nd its babyhood was associatci nth one old tub with the splendii lame of the " Golden Age." Tin' ras iu 18G2, and by 1875 there wa omething like a tleetto boast about horo being live steamers, known a ho Bruce, Maori, Beautiful Stai lawea and Taupo,all coastal boats 'he inter-colonial service, such a t was, was in the hands of Messr I'Mcchan, Blackwood & Co,, o lelbournc, and in 1878 the inter olonial service was taken over, am he name of the Company wa hanged to the one by which w :uow it, "The Union S.S. Company. 1 ''roni the beginning, the Com iany Ims shown groat enter irise, fostering and eucouraginj be coastal and inter-colonial trade I'hilo the comforts and requirement f passengers have been well met ut this respect, the Union S.S Jompany has earned great prais roni globe-trotters and others com etent to judge, and it is admitted hat by no lino of steamers in th r'orld, are passengers better served 'he building up of this Company ins of course entailed an enorniou utlay; with a fleet of 50 steamer.' rom the comfortable little "Wnihi, 1 o the palatial" Monowiti," wo get i ange of vessels suitable for ul lasses of trade. These vessels or iianned principally by New Zea anders, and there must be full; iOOO people in this Colouy depend int on the expenditure of th Jnion S.S. Company. The share wlders receive the barest return fo heir money; the last dividend wa it the rate of u' per cent., and th <cen competition that has beei brought about recently, will tend t lower the dividend. The Union S.S Company is essentially a Nev Zealand concern, and deserves th cordial support of all Colonists, fo whom and by whom it exists. Com petition has but served to show th stability and the .superiority of th company; the reduced fares ut which passengers are carried, ar ridiculously low, and those wh contemplate a sea-trip, should can fully scan the rates of passage raonc notified in another column.