VANCOUVER SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 10

VANCOUVER SERVICE.

AUCKLAND AND WELLINGTON' OPINIONS. Auckland, May 20. The secretary of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce has written to tho Auckland Chamber explaining Wellington's attitude on tho Vancouver mail question. Ho says the weekly Suez mail is far more useful and valuable than any three-weekly sen-ice could possibly be, and adds that tho Wellington Chamber is not prepared to advocate a heavy expenditure for a three-weekly mail; but is of opinion tliat tho money would bo much better applied to the prosecution of tho railway lino from Napier to Gisbome and from Gisborne northward. Mr. Giuison (president of the Auckland- Chamber), in reply, expressed astonishment at Wellington's hostility to the Vancouver service, and says: "The Auckland Chamber believes that to keep pace with tho times both the Suck and Vancouver services are wanted, hut considers the Tahiti servico useless. With regard to tho Bast Coast railway suggestion, ho asks why this patriotic impulse did not permeate the Wellington Chamber before it secured the costly and useless Tahiti sorvico of forty to forty-fivo days from London." Mr. Gunson concludes by expressing tlio opinion that the Wellington Chamber lias failed lamentably of any conception of the valuo of tho Pacific trado and tourist traffic, and adds that ho is addressing a letter on tho subject to all the Chambers in tho Dominion.