PACIFIC SERVICES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 2

PACIFIC SERVICES.

NEW SHIPS PROPOSED. SYNDICATE’S INTENTIONS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 2. A powerful overseas syndicate is considering the construction of two fast passenger vessels of approximately 20,000 tons each for the Sydney-Auck-land-Los Angeles or the Sydney-Auck-land-Vancouver service. This was revealed by Mr Brendan Dowling, a Sydney business man, who is returning from England and America as the representative of an Australian group interested in the project and desirous of fostering tourist trade between the United States and Australia and New Zealand. Mr Dowling has been conferring with the syndicate while abroad. AVhile it would be some months before a final decision was made, Air Dowling said that actually the-plans and specifications ot the vessels bad been prepared, and details of the organisation were now being discussed. It was hoped to shorten the travelling time across the Pacific, and with that end in view the vessels would have an average speed of at least 24 knots. They would be built especially to suit tropical conditions, and would provide every facility lor comfort and convenience. “Rapid strides have been made in transport since my last visit overseas about a year ago,” Air Dowling said. “The tendency is for greater speeds than those at-present attained. These improvements already are haying their effect on the trend of tourist traffic, and it is noticeable that' people domiciled on the west coast of America are travelling in greater numbers to the east coast of the continent and to Europe* . .. , , “Owing to the proximity ot such a potential tourist trade and of improvements in transport generally it is of vital importance to New Zealand and Australia that the shipping services available in the Pacific should be in keeping with the most modern of international services. “Should the Empire Governments be contemplating the granting of subsidies,” Air Dowling concluded, “the opportunity should be given to interested parties to submit particulars ot the services they could render.”