SERVICE TO DOMINION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 843, 11 December 1929, Page 9

SERVICE TO DOMINION

SUBSIDISED SHIPS FROM CANADA MINISTER CONSIDERING Herd.lo.3o a.m. OTTAWA, Tuesday. As a result of the success following the Government-subsidised freight service from British Columbia to Australia, the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Mr. James Malcolm, announced that the Government was considering the establishment of services from Canada to India. Ceylon and East Africa. In four months, with the Australian service, Canada's timber shipments, which averaged 2,400,000 feet a month in 1928, increased to 6,000,000 feet a month. “It the rate continues, it is expected that our business with Australia will reach 70,000,000 feet in 12 months. For August, September and October exports of all commodities to Australia were £1,118.566, an increase of more than £IOO,OOO over the same period last year. The subsidised service from British Columbia to the British West Indies and the northeast coast of South America are also Peiping the timber trade. Other subsidised services will ply to New Zea■and, the Fiji Islands, and West and South Africa.”