TRANS-PACIFIC SHIPPING COMPETITION.
One reads with disquiet the lengthy passenger lists of the Mat.son Line's steamer Mariposa and wonders what the controllers of the Union Steamship Company are going to do to prevent New Zealanders and British subjects from travelling by this line when so many British seamen and shipping lines are at present non-effective as bonds for Empire communication. Something must be done to try and retain their trans-Pacific passenger •trade, especially the San Francisco Royal Mail service, but it will involve more modern boats to competc against liners which are boasted of as up-to-the-minute boats. Only recently the Home mail service has been speeded up to 25 days and the trans-Tasman record been broken by the Mariposa. If there are records to be broken in intercolonial and Empire communications and standards of comfort to_ be set, why not let British-owned and Britishmanned boats set them? WHAT ABOUT IT?
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 139, 14 June 1932, Page 6
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