SHIPPING EXTENSION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 February 1907, Page 1

SHIPPING EXTENSION.

I Colonel Jarvis was asked whether ■ the Canadian Pacific Railway Company I were likely to enter into competition I with other lines trading in the South Pacific. "The C.P.R.," he said, "have very materially consolidated their Atlantic service. They found it growing, and now they have two magnificent steamI ers running acros to Liverpool. They are developing their China-Japan service, too; but the C.P.R. are a company that say very little about what they are going to do, they wait until they have done it. It's quite impossible for me to say whether they contemplate entering the Canadian-Austra-j lian trade.^ There is room for improvement in this service in the form of bigger steamers ; four vesselst of at least 10,000 tons should be placed in this service, and then people would travel — travel much more than they do now — between Aaisty-alia and Europe, via Canada. The steamers already in the Sydney-Vancouver trade are good enough, as far as they go, but they are not big enough to permit the trade to grow as it should do. We have in Canada a lot to show Australians, and Canadians have much to see in Australia and New Zealand. I think, but I speak quite unofficially, that if Australia and New Zealand were prepared to subsidise a line such as I have described, Canada would willingly con- [ tribute- her portion. Canadians arc canj tious people, and I think our statesmen | do not care to move in the matter, bej cause they do not know much about , , • the matter, not having been in the , southern lands." 0 "Do you think such a line would be ] popular with Canadian travellers : Would they prefer touring Australasia | * • and the Islands rather than Europe?" , ' I "I will not say that. Europe is very ( much closer to he Eastern provinces of n the Dominion, at any rate."