SUBSIDISED FREIGHT SERVICES HELPING CANADIAN TRADE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18941, 11 December 1929, Page 11

SUBSIDISED FREIGHT SERVICES HELPING CANADIAN TRADE.

Press Assn.—By Electric T elegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 11, 11.25 a.m.) OTTAWA, December 10. As a result of the success following the Government-subsidised freight service from British Columbia to Australia, the Minister for Trade and Commerce, Mr Malcolm, announced to-day that he was considering the establishment of services from Canada to India, Ceylon and East Africa. In the four months during which the Australian service has been existant, Canada’s lumber shipment, which averaged 2,400,000 feet a month in 1928 increased to 6.000,000 feet a month. If this rate of increase continues it is expected that Canada’s business with Australia will reach 7,000,000 feet in twelve months. For August, September and October exports of all commodities to Australia were 5,592,829 dollars, an increase of more than 500,000 dollars over the same period last year. The subsidised service from British Columbia to the British West Indies and the north-east coast of South America is also helping lumber and other subsidised services to ply to New Zealand, the Fiji Islands, ancl West and South Africa.