NEW STEAMER LINE.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 309, 28 December 1920, Page 4

NEW STEAMER LINE.

' * CANADA TO NEW ZEALAND. The Canadian Government Merchant Marine, says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph,"' proposes to estabii _' a I'ne from Atlantic ports to Australia and New Zealand. This will be another link in Empire, and, as well, another link in trade. We have to import a certain proport'on of manufactured goods, and the temper of the time is that we should import as much as possible from the other parts of t'n-e Kmpire, and we signify this by a preferential tariff. But the wish or ambit'on cannot take embodiment unless the material facilities are at hand tn make trade possible. In Eastern Canada there has been a notable development of manufacturing dr.ring the war and since. Much of it has been financed by American capita', and made possible by efficient American methods. The carriage of Canadian mamvfacuire-i made at eastern mi.ls and factories to Australia and N<w Zeakuid has long suffered a severe and almost impossible handicap owin"- to the long haul across the Dominion to Vancouver. The new line will give direct ocean connection via Panama' between Eastern Canada and Australasia; and, similarly, the pronvsed call on the return voyage at New York and other United States ports will open up a vast market to Australian exports For a long time past British steamships loaded in the United Kingdom fo T Ne-w "iork, Boston, Philadelphia, or i\ T ew Orreans, dipped cargo for Australasian porte. and loaded at the latter places for Great Britain, leaving us out in the cold so far as any direct trade with the great population of Eastern .'merica was concerned. Indirectly our products went to America: but figured in Ureat Britain's re-export trade. A direct line is therefore welcome. If the trade _ no* there to-_»y experience prove* that fictirfcie* fox __d« ___c -____ .„ "*