TRADE WITH AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2668, 13 January 1916, Page 6

TRADE WITH AMERICA

PROBABLE NEW SERVICES. It is announced by the "Weekly Commercial News," of San Francisco, in its issue of December 11, which came to hand by last mail, that Messrs. Houlder Brothers and Co , of London, have decided to establish a new steamship service from San Francisco to Australia and New Zealand. Messrs. Macondray Brothers and Co. have been appointed as the San Francisco agents for the new line, and it seems that Mr. E. J. Lamb, a number of that firm, was a passerper by the Moana, which arrive.! in Wcllingtcii just before New Year, his purpose being to make the arrangements for handling the traffic at this end. As Mr. Lamb has apparently not put himself in evidence at | Wellington, the presumption is that he has gone on to Sydney, to arrange his agencies there before undertaking the New Zealand pari n e his ifcifsion. According to the "Commercial News," it is intended to put high-class modern freight steamers on tlie service, and to have monthly sailings from either terjainus. .Natura'iy, the promoters of the service expect to obfain freights in meat, wool, etc., from the Commonwealth and Dominion p >rts, and bringing Californi'an fruit and ether Pacific Coast products to antipodein shores. The vessels controlled bv : 111-. Boulder Company—baiter known in tYs part of the world as the Federal-Shire—com-prise those of the British Empire Steam Navigation Company, operating the "River" fleet of steamers. 10 in number; the K'npire Transport C'cnpanv, operating the "Transcort fleet of 19 vessels; anrf t'>e Hovider line, working Lie steamers, I,'; in all. No ste in'T has yet been fixrd for the initial voyage on tile new htia but the pjwr quoted t'mt tlr's will prob. ablv lie d-'iie verv shortly News of another contemplated now service comes from Vancouver. It is stated that the Chicago. Milwaukee, and Puget Sound Railroad Company is at the head of a combination of Seattle business men who propose to run a service from Seattle, the big lumber port, on Pnjiet Sound, near tho British Columbian border, to New Zealand_ and Australia, with calls at other Pacific ports. Tlie proposal is to build three largo steamers for combined passenger and freight traffic, and it is stated that contracts for- their construction are expected to be placed with American yards within a few weeks.