THE VANCOUVER SERVICE
SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENT. Press Association. Copyright. (Received Fobruar.y 10,12.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, February 9. Sir J. Mills, managing director of the Union S.S. Company, has interviewed tho Postmaster-General as to improving the Vancouver mail scrvico in return for a larger subsidy. It is proposed to increase the subsidy by £19,000, Canada's extra payment being approximately £10,677, -Australia's fi/O'Go, and Fiji's £G7G, making a total subsidy of £85,000. The contract would bo for three years, from July 31st. In return for the increase tlio Union Company would improve the service by additional ships, which would give a speed of 14 knots, or n scrvico of 22J days.
Tlio Postmaster states that whilo ho does not object to the increased subsidy, he thinks it should not bo chargeable to tlio Postal Department.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VIII, Issue 2473, 10 February 1909, Page 3
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