FASTER STEAMERS
COMMENT OX CONNOLLY , SCHEME. DOUBTFUL WHETHER IT WOULD PAY. WHAT AUSTRALIA REALLY WANTS. LONDON, Oct. 29. The shipping journal commenting on Sir James Connolly s fast ship scheme for Australia, says: “While there is no question that such ships could be designed and built, it is most doubtful whether even with mail subsidies the business offering would be sufficient to justify the venture. To suggest that the Imperial Government should confine the shipment of migrants to the new and Commonwealth lines is as absurd as to imagine the existing lines, calmly and without protest, allowing all refrigerated cargo to bo offered in the first instance to the new line. Judging by the Imperial Shipping Committee s report of J 923, there is not .ouch .chance of the contemplated steamers ever being built. A close study of the report indicates that the proposed service could not obtain a profit on the terms obtainable. What Australian exporters want is faster steamers comj binod with lower freights.’’
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3493, 1 November 1926, Page 10
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