Treatment Of Old N.I.
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Boating Co.
A SERIES of questions about the Nor folk Island Boating Co. was asked in the Federal Parliament on October 3 by Mr. Rosevear (Lang Labour), and the Prime Minister replied.
He said that the company, which had been operating since 1856, had applied in July, 1934, for licenses for six boats, but such licenses had not been granted.
Licenses had been issued in 1934 to a new company (which did not operate, as sug gested, under the patronage of the Administrator) and the old company had been recommended to amalgamate with the new one. The old company had sent to the Governor-General a petition regard ing these “alleged injustices’’ and the peti tion would be duly considered.
The Prime Minister offered no explana tion of why this discriminatory action had been taken against the old established boating company.