THE ALL-RED ROUTE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 9 April 1908, Page 5

THE ALL-RED ROUTE.

DISCUSSION BY COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

[PBESB ASSOCIATION..!

, LONDON, April 8. A mooting of the Colonial Institute .(Lord Derby presiding) discussed a jjapar by Lord Strathcona doling with •the* "All-Kcd" route, fronv-an Imperial standpoint. Those present included the Hon. W. P. Reaves, New Zealand High Commissioner, (several agent*and other representative Australians. Lord SUalhcona defended' the St. Lawrence rcute, and declared that the -would have a minimum of a thousand feat width and 4 Oft deep at the lowest tide up to Quebec. Heemjh&siaed the necessity of Britain mauv teinng a euprt mo cad up-to-date me*rvChant jr.crine, particularly in tiie PaciJfic, in view of the potentialities of 4ruda Ho did not olaim that the scheme would be self-supporting at the ■outset, but tho route w^uld create; its own U-ndo. He added that steamship® built in England would provide a good -investnn-int. . ' . , Sir John Calomb emphasised the ■coining struggle) for supremacy in the Pacific, and said auxiliary cruisers would be» useless wthout battleships. Admiral Douglas considered that, theirs luuld be no difficulty in > cooling .And receiving emple a^oinancdatdon. at Fanning Island. \ Thi Commonwealth, ageait said that., the" Suec loute was inevitably more valuable to Australia, but the Commonwealth was agreed upon the advantage- cf an alternative route. Mr. Reeves declared that the unforeseen success of the Pacific cable and tho trade created via San Francisco were go«»d omans for the "All-Red" jxtute. Q'hough he admitted Australia, relied tipen the Suez, New Zealand and QuctaiEilcnd, he said, would stand to gain considerably by an "All-Red"' joute.