"ALL-RED" STEAMER ROUTE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 19 July 1907, Page 5

"ALL-RED" STEAMER ROUTE.

BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE.

NOT YET DECIDED.

United Press Association — By Electrio

Telegraph. — Copyright.

LONDON, July 18. The Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George. President of the Board of Trade, states that there is no foundation for the report that the Government Committee had decided against granting a subsidy for a steamer service for the "AllRed" Route.

He said the evidence of Canadians before the Committee was still unfinished, and no Australian or New Zealand testimony had yet been heard. The iriqufry- was -not 'tiearly^coriGkrdedrUb'risequehtly it was impossible for tlie committee to have arrived at a decision.

(The reported decision against subsidising an "All-Red" service appeared in the London Daily Telegraph.)