ANGLO – NEW ZEALAND NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13699, 16 March 1908, Page 6

ANGLO - NEW ZEALAND NOTES.

. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] London, February 7. "It is to lx- hoped,"- says the Globe, '• that some definite announcement will shortly bo made by the Government of their intentions in regard to the projected AllReel route." Last Friday evening the theatre of the Royal Institution was filled by a distinguished audience, presided over by Lord Rayleigh, to hear a lecture by Professor Ernest Rutherford, whose subject was " Recent Researches on Radio-Activity." Professor Rutherford, who will be well remembered in New Zealand, was frequently applauded during the course of his lecture. The statement is- made in Montreal that Lord Strathcona has abandoned his advocacy of Halifax as an ( all-the-year port, and will support the contention of the Canadian Pacific that Quebec is a proper summer port for the fast steamship line. The belief is expressed that the Canadian-Pacific will adopt Halifax ,as a winter port, and will keep Quebec as a summer port. " The scheme is said to include the doubling of the line between Quebec and Montreal, with faster trains, and the placing of two or three steamers of greater speed than the Lusitania and Mauretania on the- Atlantic service. In this way it is claimed that the Canadian-Pacific would have an All-red route par excellence between Europe and the Orient. On Monday a White Paper was issued by tin Board of Trade, dealing with legislative outcome in Australia and New Zealand of the results of last year's Navigation Conference. So far as New Zealand is concerned, if is stated in the White Paper that New Zealand's Bill has not yet been introduced, but that, in a despatch published in this White Paper, Lord Plunket writes: — "A Bill is now being prepared to amend the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1905, and it is proposed to make provision in the Bill to give effect to the resolutions of the Navigation Conference, with the exception of resolution No. 5. relating to manning. Section 54- of the New Zealand Shipping ali.l Seamen Act. 1903, provides that f , ships engaged in the Home or inter-colon '} trade, and whether registered in the eoloi.y or otherwise, shall be manned in accordance with the scale laid down in the third schedule to the Act, and it- is not intended to propose any amendment in this section.""