NAVIGATION CONFERENCE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10965, 7 May 1907, Page 3

NAVIGATION CONFERENCE.

TWENTY-ONE DAYS TO LONDON. (Press Assn. — By Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Received May 7, 10.17 a.m.) ■;-.- LONDON, May 6. Sir Joseph W**.*"d, Jnthe^cpjiiw£_y)f his speecu.-a^"^Sli! u iJfej^George^^ „ the Savoy hotel, argued that there were immense possibilities of increasing- trade " if mor e rapid communication between the Motherland, Australasia, and Canada were • established. If the proliibitive tolls in the Suez Canal were removed tramp steamerg would wry - back perishable , frozen ■ produce. While not desiring to reduce the cable companies' dividends, he thought it . , possible to greatly reduce the cable rates 1 to the advantage of business, social, and > domestic ties oi tlie Empire. ' ' '■■ " Mr LJoyd George referred'to Sir Jotsepbi, Ward's extraordvriary ' aWe speech and: businesslike, practiqdl sugge.t}6ns. ' Al- ! *> though 1 p^liticaL.e*ogericies"pfe'Yented the! aqqeptanee of preference, ooier,w*3.yB i re- j mained of assisting to brieg the colonies Into closer touch with - England. Sir Joseph Ward's suggestions to shorten arid improve the Appian ways of jEmpire were a matter of the greatest importance. He concurred with Sir Joseph Ward and Sir Wilfrid Laurier that it was possible to bring New Zealand within 21 days of Lon- . doa - ■*;' '■' '- ;: — . ;