NEW 'FRISCO SERVICE.
SEVENTEEN-KNOT VESSELS. By Telegraph—Mess AMOcfiation—OodstleM (Kec. October 20, 0.55 a.m.) Sydney, October 19. Captain Spronle, tho representative of the Oceanic Steamship Company, in an interview with raferonco to tho resumption of tho San J'Tancisco-Sydney service, stated that, the company's steamers Ventura, Sierra, and Sonoma aro being reconstructed at a cost of « million dollojs (X'iiOO.OOO), with a view to starting tho service. Tho company proposes to ask tho Federal Government for a subsidy of JCISCO per trip, on (ho basis of twelve trips u year, tho steamers to liavo a guaranteed speed of seventeen knots, and to make the trip from San Francisco to Sydney in twenty days. Tho company will also guarantee to land tho mails in London in thirty days.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19111020.2.49
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1264, 20 October 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124NEW 'FRISCO SERVICE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1264, 20 October 1911, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in