AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE.
P. AND O. CO.'S ATTITUDE
LONDON, Mar. ?7. Sir J.'P. Maclay, at the Aust'-aJirn , and New Zealand Club, nwl t ivor.W be 12 months before it was possible to restore the Australian mail service on anything like the old basis, though the owners were doing their utmost. It was impossible that the new \uv\ wr.tract would be anything like its favourable as the old, owing o vessels costing two and a half to three times as much. If the P. and O. Co. securrs the mail contract, it will hso wl'jte crews for the Australian trade, but it was impossible to man the m^rTtintde marine with British labour aion?. Negotiations* between tbe Board of Trade and the shipowners were proojri.ag regarding the terms for the vessels released from Government oon;r-;»l. The :*mdition was that they ">j wo rice 3 m Future to secure precedence of Gcvem'vi meat cargo. All vessels would prob.ibly t lir'be handed back to the owners, and -withjPr/in a month the Ministry of Shipping I y was foing out of business.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17534, 29 March 1919, Page 5
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177AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17534, 29 March 1919, Page 5
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