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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 34

The Albion Line Clipper "Dunedin which carried the first refrigerated cargo from New Zealand to London inl February, 1882 You live by the sea Your home may not be in sight of salt water. Nevertheless you live by the In the common interest some measure of co-ordination was clearly sea; as does every member of an island race: For the magic which trans- essential and out of that necessity came the organisation later to be forms your wool and meat and dairy products into steel and hardware; known as the New Zealand Conference. motors and machinery, oils and tobacco; fertilisers and chemicals that It is nothing more and nothing less than a Conference of separate is the magic of the sea: entities, each with its own ships, its own methods, its own traditions of Back in 1872, a group of people in New Zealand looked into the future. service. But they have some things in common and most important of They = saw a growing world demand for New Zealand products. They saw these is the determination to see that New Zealand has always the ship- a growing need by New Zealand for Manufactured goods. They : saw that ping link with the world which the country needs. New Zealand must have; not just ships, but a regular unfailing ship- And, if you still call that a monopoly ask yourself this question: ping link with the world overseas: And they founded the New Zealand How else could New Zealand have the benefit in good times and bad Shipping Company. of the greatest volume of highly-specialised refrigerated tonnage in the Its beginnings were small, but New Zealand developed fast. world, running to all intents and purposes; as far as New Zealand is Other shipping lines appeared, operating in some cases only when concerned, as one fleet and capable of handling seasonal peaks of dairy freights were plentiful, skimming the cream and leaving the residue. produce, wool, meat and fruit month in and month out 3 How else could Such competition, however, uncontrolled and unrestricted quickly her producers have the advantage of freight rates which can be known in created problems for both shippers and ship-owners. advance and stabilised for long periods ahead? How else? Issued in the interests of mutual understanding by NEW ZEALAND OVERSEAS SHIPPING LINES SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO_ LTD THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPNNG CO: LTD PORT LINE LIMITED BLUE STAR LINE LIMITED