SUBSIDISED SHIPS
FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA TO AUSTRALIA (Australian and N.Z. Press AssociationJ OTTAWA, Friday. The Minister of Trade and Commerce, Mr. James Malcolm, announced on Friday that the contract for the complete service from British Columbia ports to Australia had been awarded to the Australian and British Columbia Company, Limited. The contract is for three years. The annual subsidy paid by the Government is £18,480. The steamships will be at least 7,000 tons deadweight capacity, able to carry an average of 4,000,000 feet of lumber. All are to be of British register.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 721, 22 July 1929, Page 11
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92SUBSIDISED SHIPS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 721, 22 July 1929, Page 11
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