Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1907. MAIL SERVICES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10961, 2 May 1907, Page 2

Poverty Bay Herald PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. GISBORNE, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1907. MAIL SERVICES.

It is to be hoped that . the steps that are being taken by Sir Joseph Ward in England^ tp secure an ''All; Red'', mail service between Britain' and New Zealand will be .brougbtr.to a successful issue. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has already expressed his approval of the proposals, that have been made to improve and accelerate the present Vancouver . service, bub Mr Deakin has not yet declared; his hand, though tlie Commonwealtli Government are reported to have: consented to thf extension tor- one year of the present Vancouver "mail contract. The proposal is tliat a subsidy of £110,000 should be granted, of which Canada shall pay, £50,000, . New Zealand £40,000, and Australia £20,000 a year. With this encouragement,^ the Canadian Pacific Railway Company^ 'working', in conjunction with the. present contractors, . .would put oh at least two of their fine Empress 6teamers, at present trading between. Vancouver;, and the Orient, and which are known all the world over to combine luxurious accommodation^ with a prie turn of speed.,.- With this provisioii for travellers, not only would the already popular British service across tlie Pacihe, and over. the Rockies secure greatly increased patronage, but our mails would be delivered in. England much more quickly"' and tlkin has hitherto ; bee;- the,; case/ . Seeing < that the colony* paid >*asi -much as-£6U,OpO per. annum "'many! years ago _for.ii four-weekly: Sail Francisco iser,?; vice, of much less i utility -thjin .'-.the proposed new service* would be. fche" grant of* £40,000 a year --.is- 'not tod much to be given to assist in the establishment of such a..tine up-to-date line of steamers, connecting with: the most popular,-' 6f tiansc.o'ntine>ital railway routes, ujid the largest* and' speediest of Atlantic steamers. ' i'lie* New Zealand Government, tliough profess-. ing-. v to .be desirous of building up trade with Canada, lias ih^the past, been very parsimonious in its; ehcouragemeht to 'tlie Vancouver service, :m- spite of V the fact tliat sterfoiers oHVned ;in tbis coldiiy and , manned with colonials were empldyed> ; ;ih ! the trade, but" the'' traffic has, witli/much, .enterprise, been built' up to considerable dimensions, and there are the strongest sentimental reasons-, as well as others of practical import. ' vitaf-'th the unity of. the" Empire, of which we are Jiea'ring so hiuch iroin tlie Imperial Confeiejice, why New. Zealand, Australia,!;. aud Canada; should join together in the "fostering- of the social and commercial between - Home and the colonies that an all-British-mail;and passenger service across tlie Pacific, such as is proposed, would be "sure to give.-.; -. .. X. ■■-.^Yi ■