PACIFIC SHIPPING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 305, 24 November 1937, Page 9

PACIFIC SHIPPING

BRITISH STATUS. GOVERNMENTS CONFERRING. NO STATEMENT YET. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received November 24, 10 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 23. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, said that the English, Australian and New Zealand Governments were conferring on the position of British shipping in the Pacific. He was not in a position to make a statement wiiether or not financial arrangements had been reached for the buikbing of new ships. He was aware of the concern, but the matter depended on other countries besides Britain. “We are prepared to play our part,” he added. ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED. PLANS COMPLETED. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. The correspondent of the Australian Associated Press learns that only the final word from the British Government, which is expected in a very short time, stands in the way of a public announcement of the details of the Canadiau-Australian and New Zealand Pacific liners. It is understood that Sir Edward Beatty, chairman of the Canadian Pacific Railways, through whom the announcement probably will be made, has confided to friends that the plans are completed down to the smallest detail aril contracts for various divisions of the construction work ready for signature. Representatives of tbe line are ascertaining the possibilities of traffic and arranging future alignments on bookings throughout the United States. i

The two ships, .for which complete plans and specifications have been in readiness for a considerable time, will be high-class passenger liners of about 22,000 tons gross register, with a length of more than 700 feet and a service speed of about 22 knots, geared turbines being the system of propulsion.

DATE OF DISCUSSION.

AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN,

Received November 24, 12.40 p.m. TOKIO, Nov. 23. The newspaper, Chugai Sliogyo expects that the conference between the Australian and Japanese shipping interests will not begin before January due. to preliminary discussion of the agenda, notably whether to include the New Zealand traffic, in which the Osaka Shosen Ivaisha and Yamasliita Lines are particularly interested.

DOMINION TRADE,

TENDS TO CLOUD ISSUE.

Received November 24, 12.40 p.m. SYDNEY, Nov.. 24. Mr G. Rickards, a partner of the MacDonald Hamilton, Co., managing agents for the Eastern Australian line which is the only company, other than the Japanese, concerned in the conference, who is now away in Japan, stated some time ago that his company did not wish to enter any discussion regarding the New Zealand trade. Japanese vessels were running direct to New Zealand but the Eastern Australian Line only carried New Zealand cargoes, which, were brought to Sydney and transhipped. The introduction of New Zealand traffic into any discussion therefor© only tended to cloud a clear-cut issue.