STATE LINE OF OCEAN FREIGHTERS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13410, 6 March 1914, Page 5

STATE LINE OF OCEAN FREIGHTERS.

TO KEEP DOWN RISING RATES

Ottawa, March 2

The Dominion Millers' Association has urged the Government to establish a lino of State-owned steamers between Canada and Great Britain to combat the increasing ocean freights, which it was stated in the last few years has increased 40 to 75 per cent.

Mr Borden, Prime Minister, did not favour a Government line. He suggested tliat the millers and farmers should co-operate in creating and patronising a line.