CANADIAN TRANSPORT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 26 October 1931, Page 4

CANADIAN TRANSPORT.

C.P.R. AND CANADIAN NATIONAL

IMPORTANT AGREEMENT

ARRANGED

A notable agreement has been come to whereby" the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the Government-owned Canadian National Railway Company will co-operate in the promotion of rail and steam ship business. ' The following is a copy of a cablegram received from the head office of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Montreal:

"Following official announcement was made here torday:—-Co-operation between Canada's two- great railway companies registered an important advance here to-day when it was officially announced that an agreement had been reached whereby the Canadian National will co-operate with the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian Pacific steam ships in the advertising and solicitation of freight, passenger and express traffic for Canadian. Pacific ships to and.from Canadian Atlantic ports. In other words, the two railway companies have agreed to work together to promote rail and steam ship business originating across the Atlantic or that goes through or from Canada to European ports.. "While under this arrangement the steam ship company will have the advantage of securing business originating on Canadian National 'lines, the agreement also provides 'for J a-'cbmpensafiing- advantage to the' Caha'aidii 1 Na'tiona'J-in tiho rail haul of • freight, 'passenger-'-Tahd' express business to and from the ships ;'of the 'Canadian Pacific/ This agreement follows upon the policy of co-operation which the executives of the two companies have been working toward over many months. "One of the features of the agreement is that in order to serve the Canadian National all. Canadian Pacific passenger ships sailing to and from Saint John, N will call, at Halifax, N.S., both on their west-bound and east-bound voyages, and Canadian Pacific freight ships sailing from Saint John on east-bound voyages will also put into that port. Saint John will continue to be the Canadian Pacific winter terminal port handling through traffic as in the past. "As a part of .the agreement with the Canadian. Pacific Steam Ships the Canadian National .representatives become agents for*"the sale of passenger tickets and the booking of freight through _ its ticket offices, agencies and representatives throughout''Canada and United States, the British Isles and wherever else it does .business.. ' The agreement covers a period of ten year's and has received the signatures of Mr. E. W. Beatty and Sir Henry It becomes effective at once. The two railway companies will, as in the past, ■ continue' to handle traffic to and from all Isther Atlantic steam ship lines."