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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 917, 8 March 1957, Page 2

Partners in Progress For 75 years, the New Zealand story has been one of continuous enterprise, progress and achievement; and in all that has been done; the ships have been your willing partners and your faithful servants. Indeed, this story of success may well be said to have begun with a shipa 3 8 {e 3 DUNEDIN Wellington STAR The Albion Shipping Company $ Clipper "Dunedin" (1,200 tons) sailed Today,the Blue Star Line S Motor Vessel "Wellington Star" of11,994 tons from Port Chalmers February I5th 1882, arrived London May 24th, is typical of the modern ships in the New Zealand trade. She is ten times with the first-ever cargo of frozen meat; comprising 4,311 carcases as large as the "Dunedin She carries 21 times as mnuch Mutton and Mutton, 598 carcases Lamb, 22 carcases Pork, 2,226 Sheep Tongues: Lamb (108 823 carcases) as well 4S 7,294 quarters of Chilled Beef, I0, 029 packages of frozen Beef; Pork and Sundries, 60,652 cartons of Butter and 60,520 cases of Apples: She can make the voyage Auckland- Dunkirk in 31 days- less than one-third of the time taken by the "Dunedin Thus, over the years, have the ships played their part in New Zealand' $ continuous develop- ment: They have more than kept in step with the achievements of producers, for ship- owners must look far ahead: The ship that is built today will still be in service 20 years hence and must be able to handle the trade of the future, as well as that of today: As the Lines join in celebrating the 75th _ Anniversary of the dispatch of the first shipment of frozen meat, they look forward with confidence to the developments which have yet to come: Issued in the interests of mutual understanding by NEW ZEALAND OVERSEAS SHIPPING LINES SHAW SAVILL & ALBION CO: LTD THE NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING CO. LTD PORT LINE LIMITED BLUE STAR LINE LIMITED