AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1907, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

THE NEW CGMFRACT. (THE ORIENT"" C©MFANy'S POSITION. ; [press "assocmtion.^J '■■ 'PlßceiTred Sept. K);20 aim.) ADELAIDE, Sept. 23, : Mr Kennet^h Anderson, a ; director of the; Orient Royal Mail .Company, has arrived, in connection :■ with the n«w mail contract. He states that thevCompany intend to Ifender for the; contract, and if necessary, the Company -will put on fatteii, "iai-ger and more up-to-date vessels. If they lose the contract they will liaye to rearrange their service, anfl Tvill:be unable to continue the passenger-service, as it is the subsidy only which has hitherto ;enabled the "Company; to run that class of ship.