PACIFIC LINERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1931, Page 3

PACIFIC LINERS

IMPROVED SERVICE PREDICTED. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, August 5. The Sydney “Suh” correspondent at Vancouver cables that, behind the Union S.S. Co.’s Wellington announcement yesterday that the CanadianPacific Railway Company is taking a leading interest in the new CanadianAustralian line, there may come some important developments during the next few years. Tho “Empress lines (of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company) that trade in the Pacific, between Vancouver and the Orient, are doing a very satisfactory business, which is in direct distinction to the falling-off of trade and the cutting of rates that are prevalent in the Atlantic. There may be no changes in service from Vancouver to Sydney for several months, but, eventually, tIA intention is to instal greatly improved ships, and to double the number of sailings, so as to take full advantage of the improvement in the trade under the new Australian-Canadian treaty. In short, it is intended to build faster and better communications across the Pacific; and, perhaps, to circle the Pacific Ocean with special sailings from Vancouver to New Zealand, Australia, Manila and the Orient.