THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 790, 13 April 1910, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE.

The president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce (Mr. J. H. Gnnson) received a reply on Saturday from the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce to his cablegram in reference to 1 tho prospects of the Subsidy Bill passing the United States House of Representatives and the reinstating of the San Francisco mail service. The reply was: "No favourable legislation this Congress." Mr. Gunson said that from this he inferred that the Subsidy Bill had not altogether been abandoned, but had been Shelved for the present session' of Congress. In the circumstances, therefore, Mr. Gunson considered that the letter that he, as president of the Chamber of Commerce, proposed sending by the outgoing Vancouver mail to the San Francisco Chamber, wonld arrive at a very opportune time, and would doubtless impress business men in.the United States with the importance the people of tho North Island attached' to an early inauguration of a' new subsidised mail and passenger sorvico with tho west coast of North America. .

In view of the fact that several months would probably elapso before tho Subsidy Bill again claimed the attention of Congress, Mr. Gunson proposes to amplify the letter to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and circularise every responsible chamber of commerco in the United States in the hope that by so doing concerted action may be taken to impress on the United States House and Senate tho importance of the San Francisco service and of the passage of the Subsidy Bill.