OUR LINK WITH EAST CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 941, 7 October 1910, Page 4

OUR LINK WITH EAST CANADA.

-VQUESTION OP:BACK'-!FEEiXjB3^ : :f ; ;!. .(ByV.TelegTaph.—Special; Correspondent)j; ; : i - 1 -';.:: "Auckland, October'it; v - --;.-' ' The -statement regardingf;the : question ;"'• of 'return, 'freights s i of! the';. steamers;.'en-;, gaged ■•-.in'- the. ,new • Canadian;, cargo; ser- \- ;, vice to .New':: Zealand, -which'!- "has.-' been: ;■'-■■ madeUhv.Wellington^.by the ;;,Canadian-.-Trade Commissioner .(Mr.-W. "A..-Beddoe),^, ,? formed ■' the. subject - of; some inquiries; by ;!-;- a reporter yesferday.Vlt was; pointed; out.. that - the fact' that the. three.-vessels ..en-;,,; gaged '•■in 'the;new, service! had s "gone' t0;,.; Australia' in ballast - was 'due to the; gene- - ; .; ral scarceness, of; the particular season of,; ; the ■- vear.". It was also : stated ' that,' dur-; ■■:. ; in" a ; portion ,of; last -.summer,; steamer-, : ; space-: could- not: •bevfound for' all:'the;;-, frozen meat !that: was-.Offering; from New;.;;; Zealand,'.and. that, r therefore, ..there; was.--: a prospect of. freights .being -: for England during, the, coming":season.';,,:" :-■'-■ In regard to the question; of -■.'; back '-.; freights" to :Canada ; from ..New Zealand |;'•!'! the opinion was.expressed.by- one "shipping authority that the-;Goveriuneut::;. should give a subsidy for a time in order' : to establish;;a!'trade;;with Canada.■•■ c Ho ;.: poin+ed:out that; in '■■ the ; latter Dominion,::: an excellent" market should be found, not! - only for.- our .meat, but .'also, for our- flax.;; and other produce;; ;Cahada,-as !a;;great-. wheat-growing : cduntfyi required:■ a: great',; .-■; deal of flax'forbinder.twine, and already;; took a ; Zea- ,- land : hemp, but it.was. now. shipped:by,;.; :way of London) instead, .of going : direot:,;; In;avory little.time: it'was. thought that; OTmcieht:!rrade'would;be forthcoming,to,.; make the.discontinuance of the.eubsidy.. - possible.; ■ :'.-•■ ;:.;;: :.;'■<■'*:. "■ : --- : -•r\;.