OCEANIC SERVICE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 52, 14 February 1912, Page 7

OCEANIC SERVICE.

TO BE RESUSCITATED. OIL TO BE USED AS FUEL. “Within six month'." =ay = the Franci-sco “P<j ; t ’ . -;iU .■ “steamers Hying the American flag will again he seen on the San Frane iseo -A ■ >.' t :■;> ’.lan route. ” “ '•> th,. !'->[•• ’ ; -‘A 't.-d in S.',..U<.i U-yk’n- uETi t Kha J: io Am r.- !o the ■ h F :i ..i. ! h.-.-n . ■! Ay Lni ■>< ’ 1 ■'* * tPosi 1113'te”-< »f'r ■W»k. r.'.>i V-I lan: 'm- . a:iv;e--s received to dav from V. .! g'n--. TLio.iat. this p;an. .u.e .'t<-a aiers Sonoma and Ventma. < t tbr Oceanic Company, which acre taken eft’ the ran shortly after the fire, whin tht mail ‘-uL.-idy wa; withdrawn. will put to -ta again a-, • o as the wr.;k of nvirkacling them, now in progress at the Union Ir< ;- Works, has been completed. Th'vessels a:.- being converted into < ’I burners, and put in first-class condition. and will be ready to leave the yards within three months. The plan, as approved, calls for a mail subsidy. Within a few days Fc: master-Genc-ral Hitchcock will advertise for bids for the carrying of the mail from San Francisco to Sydney. Austr-vim by way of Honolulu and Pago Pago. Frederick S. Samuels. rep’ e?f nting the Oceanic Steamship Company, is now in

Washington. He attended the White House conierer.ee on the question of restoring the ting to the Pacific, and stands ready to bid for the mail contracts on behalf of his company. Under the Act of !$9l the Government can grant 2doi. a mile to American vessels carrying mail, and with this ass'stam-p the company hopes to again put American bottoms in the South Pacific trade. The company stands ready to put the Sonoma and Vrntura in operation by next Julv -f >t is aw aided the mail contractu The mat!' between Sydney and the Pacific Coa't now are carried in Engl.'h 'teameis docking at Vancouver. B.C.