AN " ALL-RED " ROUTE

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9074, 1 November 1907, Page 1

AN " ALL-RED " ROUTE

INTERVIEW WITH SIR JAMES MILLS. ' United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. MELBOURNE, October 31. Sir James Mills, in an interview, said that during his visit to Britain he ' had endeavoured to have a faster steam eervice instituted between England and Australia, via Canada and New Zealand. There was every prospect of his efforts being successful, and the time for the through passage from England to Sydney being reduced to twenty-six or twenty-eight days. A scheme was being prepared by an English syndicate to lay before the Imperial Government for a fast service by an All-Red route. He was not at liberty to say < whether the Union Company was connected with the syndicate. The idea was to construct a railway across Ireland to Blacksod Bay in Mayo. The other Irish terminal would connect by steamer ferry, transporting bodily train and passengers to a point ii Scotland. Steamers would run from Blacksod Bay to Halifax, thence there would be communication by a fast, improved railway service to Vancouver. From Vancouver a faster type of steamer than at present employed would run to Australia, if the service was to be continued as at present. The Union Company were having four steamers built, one of the Marama type, but a thousand tons larger. |