PACIFIC OCEAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1929, Page 7

PACIFIC OCEAN.

NEW WORLD'S CENTRE.

Canada Urged To Develop Services.

COMPETITION WITH U.S.A.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 12.30 p.m.)

VANCOUVER, September 24

Captain Robert, of the Dollar Pacific Coast Shipping Company, and Mr. Dean, owner of the Dollar Steamship lines, when interviewed on Tuesday, declared that in a few years the centre of the world's commerce will be the Pacific. Western Canada must start now to lay a foundation.

She should start manufacturing raw materials and get them across the ocean. Even to-day the Pacific Ocean carried increasing commerce so fast that it was hard to keep track of it all. They advocated a cheap cable communication between all sides of the Pacific, in business interests.

Canadian manufacturers ana producers are seeking new world markets and to hold the existing ones, which are under a heavy handicap compared with the United States' competitors, declared Mr. J. E. Walsh, general manager of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, before a conference of business heads. Pointing out the difference on the Pacific Coast alone, he quoted figures to show that while the United States steamship companies were getting a yearly subsidy for Pacific Ocean services, mostly mail contracts, amounting to £950)000, Canadian lines get £121,200.

United States subsidies provide regular sailings for South America, Sydney, Auckland, Melbourne, and Manila. Canada is paying less in subsidies than a decade ago. Steamship subsidies are important to the development of Canadian trade and very necessary to the extension of the service from Vancouver to the Antipodes and other parts of the Empire.