SPEEDY ALL-RED ROUTE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 4

SPEEDY ALL-RED ROUTE.

SUGGESTION BY. HON. .W. HALL-JONES SDuring the course of a speech ac Waikanaei yesterday,' the Hon. ,W. Hall-Jonea touched on the matter of a speedy, AU-R«l niail route between .England,' Canada, Now Zealand,. and Australia, and ,threw 'out a suggestion. The.fcroublo sd'far, h6 said, had been ' in' regard to tho' Atlantic service—the great'cost of running boats at, some 25 knota speed. The *ost'of ,an entirely pew.; Atlantio ■ service would bo such that it . would' causa the matter ;to bo delayed l for. some time.- ■ But when, tlioy remembered- that' theyl such boats as' the Lusitauia .and the Mauro-.' tania, which, fulfilled the speed qualifications, and which, woro running to New, York—and that these' boats were so largely, under., tho control of tho Imperial Government , that , they could bo diverted from the Nctfr York trado l to the most, suitablo Canadian portit would, bo well ".if- for , thopresent,. they looked upon. these boats ■: asrsupplying-. : the Atlantic part of the 'sorvice. j In the event of any difficulty occurring or an emorgoncy, tha boats could bo divorted from, New York, to a Canadian port. : Tho second section of tho, service, across .America,:' .'was .in .the-;.hands', of the Canadians, .and there: only remained thoreforo the improvement of tho VancouvorNovv Zealand and Australian service.- If they had 18-knot steamers from Vancouver, it would mean that people could travel from London to Auckland in slichtly ovor twentythreo.days. (Applause.) .' Tho long timo that it took to travel to .the. Dominion from.; Home told against U6 in the matter of population. People/did hot meastirb distance in this matter by miles. What ho proposed' would tend to bring a great; many more peCple to tho Dominion', and ' it/wolild :alsoi serVo tho Empiro in time of trouble. . The, matter of ah All-Red Route, continued the' Minister, when brought before the Ihip6ml ■ Conforenco by Sir Joseph • Ward,/ had; received a . lot of ; attention,',aud was'not likely to bo lost'sight of. -;V , : ; . :