CARRIAGE OF MAILS.
SUBSIDY BY THE UNITED STATES,
AUCKLAND, January 17,
The San Francisco correspondent of the New Zealand Herald states tlmt as a result of an interview between Mr Taft and the Oceanic Company’s representative it is announced that the. United States Government will pay a mail subsidy of 8s 4d par mile to a line carrying mails from San Francisco to New Zealand and Australia. via Honolulu and Pago-Pago. This ensures a resumption of the San Francisco service by the Ventura and Sonoma. These vessels will be refitted as oilburners. It is expected that they will be ready in June.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3019, 24 January 1912, Page 13
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102CARRIAGE OF MAILS. Otago Witness, Issue 3019, 24 January 1912, Page 13
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