PACIFIC SERVICE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15557, 6 March 1911, Page 7

PACIFIC SERVICE.

CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. United Fress Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, March 4

A deputation of members of the Chamber of Commerce waited on Mr Tudor regarding the questions of reciprocity with Canada and provision for the Australian-Canadian trade. The president stated that the PostmasterGeneral might feel complacent over the discontinuance of the subsidised service for poundage. The carriage of the mails might be cheaper, but thore was a danger of New Zealand, which enjoyed reciprocity with Canada, cutting seriously into'Australian trade interests. The Federal Governmentmight subsidise not a mail but a cargo service. Mr Tudor promised to lay the request beforo the Cabinet, hut said he did not expect that any action would be taken. He pointed out that in 190 S the" export trade to Canada was only £BO.OOO. The steamers still came to Sydney, and the Commonwealth was no worse off regarding the service.

FEDERAL POLITICS.

THE REFERENDUM QUESTION Unitad Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

MELBOURNE, March 4

Mr Lee, ex-Minister of "Works, New South "Wales, made a strong statement against the referendum, declaring that it would lead to anarchy, chaos and civil war. It was quite impossible for a central body to cope with the work of the whole of Australia.