ALL RED ROUTE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13644, 11 July 1908, Page 5

ALL RED ROUTE.

DISCUSSION AT OTTAWA. ■ P)te,mAssociation-By Telegraph-Copyright Received 10.5 p.m., July iOth. i \ ' . ' OTTAWA, July 10. . Sir Wilfrid in moving the resolution relating to the'".All Red " route, said it: might not be advisable to subsidise steariiers as large {is the Mauritania, b|ut a fleeti of a steaming capacity of 550 to 21 knots was necessary for the Atlantic, and 18 to 20 knots for the Pacific. ?. Mr Foster, a. former Financial Minister, complained that no' commercial "reasons had been given to warrant the expenditure of, 1,000,000 dollars a lyear for a decade. Besides New Zealand. required a 13-day, iijofc a) 16-day service, for the'; Pacific. ' ' ]Mr Borden moved an amendment' expressing strong sympathy,; with thq object of the resolution, but declaring that, essential, features of the service must 'be cold storage and cheap rates; also requiring that any contract be submitted to Parliament. ; .. jMr Lifton declared'-' that. ' the-project could not be carried into effect under five years, and that it required 'a subsidy. The British Government were'awaiting- the action of the., colonies.,. Mr ,Lif.ton • believed a 24-knot. Atlantic: service, j and. 20kliot. Pacific service, .would (satisfy Australia and New- Zealand; >. ' '