A SUBSIDISED SEEAM LINE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 531, 11 June 1909, Page 7

A SUBSIDISED SEEAM LINE.

TEE LAST OF IT ,ALLEX IXITHDRA^. T£tr,pRAFH—PKESB ) ' Aucftfand, June 10' ' Recently it was announced that t]io Alley' Imo of steamers had 'been withdrawn from' tho New cargo scrrico owing to the cessation of Government sub- 1 eidies lib steamer Indravolli," wßich arrived at Auokland this morning, tho last' vessel of the >line to b& engaged in t'hei trade, which ceases with hoi departure from Now Zealand She -has been $&xl to load in this Domniion and jn Australia for London The gua.ntrty of oargo by ,the.yessol, at Vancouver was pietty Qbnsidorablo lori Auckland she has ?50,Q00 f,oet of Oregon 1 puie, and n largo miantity of general cptgo,, while she has 2,000,Q00 f v <>t of pregon blno and teenwal cargo for disrhareo ,a,t Wellinetpn, Lyttelton, and Drtndrn •Srhce the sorvice inaugprated three yftvrs ag<>, the Oanadnn shipiqghts havo al-1 ways been satisfactory,"but tfio same cjnn,pt be said of the exports from' Nbw Zealand In more often than not, tho steamers vwro sent back jx> Vinco\iver yath no cargo at all, although it is only fair ty sUto tw of late a slight improveme,itVas noticeable Tho master of th,e vessel (Captain Pflch,pr) stated to-day that the to the Service was all on the Now Zealand side, and if the Canadians had their wiy tho steamers would still bo running The people m tho older Dominion reoret that the sorvice has been abandoned Thev -did-not wint to withdraw their subsidy, they nero keen on having the lino mmniained but as the Zealand -Government would not continno \U subsidy, Canada was reluctant)/ compelled to withdraw its subsidy also