ALL-RED PACIFIC SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20308, 6 August 1931, Page 13

ALL-RED PACIFIC SERVICE.

LATEST big move, j ■ — I f jjt. JOINS WITH UNION j COMPANY. j ! {By, Will Lawson.) j Hie announcement of the merging jf the interests of tho Canadian Ausnjjsian Royal Jlail Lino anJ the Pacific Railway Company in I Sue to be called the Canadian Aus(Blan Line, Ltd., recalls interesting jn tlie history of tlio All lied pa ia the Pacific. j Is tie esf'y 'eighties the attention ! [ & Brifiit people whs directed to tho j i rot9 which' Lord Strathcona termed i [nbe tintiah highway between Great j Zealand, and Australia." j VUK tiw. Canadian Pacific Railway • {aratßr profwaed to start a mail serrite beWWS Vancouver and Sydney, gg tiaia t<> be taken between these parts to be l? days. Tho C.P.lt., liow-. ew, inaugurating its JJ'ar and the project lapsed til! l®}, *sms a company was formed S the imperial Steam for the Rurposo dfluußS" C( l a 'l from LonwayM Canada and ; thiß' : case "tllfe*totttt fg IfttifeiAwails between London and jjHajpte/be 35 days. This, too, tawMMtefc of support. aMKRv C.P.H. apuin seriously iiii|it|inoj(t f|iir ;tinn of a fast mail Wfpmir service between Vanbut did not go on

I ret Service. ustralmn, Mr James irm of Huddart Par•fc the service. This h Mr Huddart was tin" subsidies from d New South Wales a monthly service. > route was then the Sydney and London, ite was admittedly i command of Captain i service from Sydney id the Warrimoo folding commanded by Many difficulties a hampered the> line, as found that a third and the old Aotnngi im the New Zealand sy. Mr Huddart's subsidy for a service ante to nothing, and line, into which be B 'fortune, ciiusfed' his' en the company went rith' the'Netf Zealand' fas receiver. The bought the Miowera nd a controlling inwhich eventually be; opertv of the Union angri being taken over This ship ran for Vancouver trade. At w called at Brisbane 'aland, but New Zcaitided in the itinerary Arawa. of the Shawwo trips in the early ■ and -vessels engaged' k>mpany took it over , Maheno.- Maknra, Competition, rging of interests is I to meet the romof the large Matson nter the running beicisco, Los Angeles, New Zealand, and ecn mentioned from the largo Empresses aid one day run to mpany were for long laiiadian Australasian , and the Union Comro'rkcf] in harmonious the C.P.I*. ggcr passenger liners stween North Amerind cannot help" but tourist traffic, and Id reap a handsome ie time it is satisfacBritish shipping i' 1 competition of th American lines, rtant chapter in the shipping, this latest all those who recall h© pioneers of such hom, it may be said, ler« and Australians ncd to have - their iy linked with *-ke

E LINERS." DEVELOP--SSHADOWED. D TIIE PACIFIC. itb, 10.35 p.m.) Xfv «"gust 5t . a Sydney >r ■ 11 that frooi ton nnouncemeat

that the Canadian Pacific Railway is taking a leading interest in the Canad-ian-Australian Line may ant developments during the tew years. The Empress liners in the between Vancouver and the Orient are doinc very satisfactory business in direct • distinction • to- the falling off o trade and the cutting of rates prevalent on the Atlantic. There may be no changes in the service from V ancouve to Sydney ■ for several months, but eventually the intention is to t ' greatly improved ships and also to double the number of sailings to full advantage of the improTCmßii trade under the new treaty; m tc build faster and better communications across the Pacific and perhaps circle the Pacific with * ail^! from Vancouver to New Zealand, Aus tralia, Manila, and the Orient.