AUSTRALIA ANXIOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 June 1913, Page 8

AUSTRALIA ANXIOUS.

" 11 OA.BLI— PREtiB ASSOCIATION—COPYfiIGB-. v--:\n_. „».' i. 'SYDNEY, June 19. ' . *_c Chamber of Commerce Congress. . L»dopted a resolution asking the Federal ;-Government to take immediate steps to re-establish a direct steamship, service ,*ei«,veen Vancouver and Australia. The •f.JWver urged that this was needed in ■W-Lec to. secure a growing trade with Canada. It was a business- proposition ■"" aaa would soon repay itself. -Mi J. Paxto«a said that after spsnd- ~ ing money «p to a.paying point in -ie " setfj.ee, Australia had quietly sat duv.iv «-d allowed New Zealand to develop and get the benefit of Australia's _- •"'..' penditure. It was a grave reflection on the Commonwealth 'administration that -.-...such a thing should be allowed. New Zealand.had contracted for a limited term, but the Government was behind it and when the time came, it was well _nown that the contract would bo re- / Bewed.