CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1908, Page 7

CANADA AND THE EMPIRE.

MR. GOW'S IMPRESSIONS. HOPES OF THE ALL-RED ROUTE. THE JAPANESE QUESTION. By Telegraph. — Press -Assrociation. — Copyright. BRISBANE, 27th January. Mr. J. Graham Gow, who has been visiting Canada as a trade representative from New Zealand, arrived here to-day by the" Moana from Vancouver. In the course of an interview Mr. Gow said he found commercial men in Canada very anxious to do business with possessions under the British flag. The recent depression in America had affected Canadian business a good deaJ, bufc he was hopeful that a big trade between Canada and New Zealand would be worked up in the near future. The feeling in Canada against the Commonwealth tariff, said Mr. Gow, was still strong. The people there had expected far better terms from Australia. The All-Red route was being freely discussed by Canadian commercial men when Mr. Gow was in Cauada, and they were hopeful that the service would be /brought into operation. Mr. Gow said the Japanese question was receiving serious attention from the people of Canada, and was one of the chief planks of the platform of the Opposition party in Parliament. It was estimated^ that there were ninety thousand Japanese residing in Honolulu, and they were found in almost every business there.