CENTRALISATION

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 73, 29 April 1929, Page 5

CENTRALISATION

Per Press Association.

STATEMENT BY SHAW, SAVILL COMPANY. SHIPS WILL GO WHERE WANTED

GISBORNE, This day. The Gisborne Harbour Board has received a communication from the head office of tlie SHaw, Savill and Albio.n Company, London, 011 the suhject of the proposed abandonment of the flatrate freight charges to New Zealand ports. In this the oompanv states, ''To k.e quite eandid, we tliink that Gisborne and other wayside ports are unneeessarilv alarmed at the action of tlie Wellington Harbour Board, as not for a moment can we believe that New Zealand. as a whole, will agree to give the producers in the neighbourhood of the main ]iorts a certain pref erence over the producers at the roadstead ports. . „ "From the shipowners' ponit or view, we probably would welconie an arrangement that would eftect curtauing the ports of loading and coastwise steaming, but this is a matter not controlled by the shipowner, as he is expected to cater for the trade efficientjy, in fair or foul weather, and to present his ship to lift cargo at such points as it arises. "We eannot helieve for oue moment tliat differentation earf possiblv he made in favour of the main ports, to the detriment of the other ports, and shall be verv much sui'prised if any legislntion will he forthcommg tliat will in anv wav. ehange ihe present svstem under which the smaller ports e'njoy the same privileges as the larger ones."