UNION COMPANY'S NEW BOAT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 25 April 1913, Page 5

UNION COMPANY'S NEW BOAT.

THE ONLY UNSINKABLE VESSEL

11 CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION-COPYBIGHT. MELBOURNE, April 24. Speaking at the Niagara luncheon, Mr Tudor said that he and Mr Fisher had not yet completed the reciprocity negotiations. He hoped that when Mr Foster, of Canada, arrived in a few days they would be able to come to a satisfactory arrangement. Mr Fisher declared that the Niagara was one of the looms which were weaving a better and more lasting understanding between the people of the overseas Dominions. New Zealanders desired a better understanding, more trade and more commerce. Sir Jas. Mills, replying, said that" though the Canadian-Australasian line was under the control of the Union Company it was a cosmopolitan affair, because now it was controlled as much by Australian as New Zealand money. The more Australia and New Zealand worked together the better it would be for the Anglo-Saxons in these Dominions. The Niagara was the largest colonial-owned ship afloat. Though now coal driven, she would, on reaching Vancouver, have her 5000-ton oil fuel tanks filled, which would be sufficient to bring her to Sydney and take her back to Vancouver. These tanks rendered her unsinkahle. She was the only unsinkable ship afloat. Captain Gibbs stated that opinion on the Clyde was that nothing on the same level as the Niagara had ever left Britain.