FASTER VESSELS FOR PACIFIC RUN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 2

FASTER VESSELS FOR PACIFIC RUN.

EXPECTED OUTCOME OF MAIL LINE MERGER United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 5. The correspondent of the “Sydney Sun at Vancouver, cables as follows: “Behind the Wellington announcement that the Canadian Pacific Railway is taking a leading interest in the Cariadian-Australian Line is the possibility that important developments may come during the next few years. “The Empress liners which are in the trade between Vancouver and the Orient are doing very satisfactory business in direct distinction to the falling off of trade and cutting of rates prevalent on the Atlantic coast. There may be no changes in the service from Vancouver to Sydney for several months, but eventually the intention is to install greatly improved ships, with double the number of sailings, in order to take full advantage of the improvement in trade under the new treaty—in short, build faster and better communications across the Pacific, and perhaps circle the Pacific with special sailings from Vancouver to New Zealand, Australia, Manila and the Orient.”