THE VANCOUVER SERVICE.
A NEW DEVELOPAIENT. SYDNEY OPPOSITION TO UNION COMPANY. OFFER TO COMMONWEALTH.. Uy Teleiraoh—Press Assomtion-CoDrriEht. (Rec. December 30, 0.25 a.m.) Melbourne, .December 29. The Federal Government will next week, consider the Yoncouver mail service in tlio light of a new and important development. ! Mr. Huglies, the Acting-Prime Minister, a few • days ago received a letter from a well-known firm in Sydney, intimating that a group of merchants and shippers, specially interested in the, development of trade with Canada, is prepared, if the contract is once more thrown, open to tender, to submit an, offer in competition with the Union Steam Ship Company. • ■ Mr. Hughes states that, nothing, has so far been done in the way of negotiations, and the matter will have to stand over till thq Postmaster-General (Mr. Thomas) returns to Melbourne.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 5
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135THE VANCOUVER SERVICE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 5
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