PASSENGER FARES
ON TRANS-PACIFIC STEAMERS. It was stated in the cablo news some days ago that tho passenger rates across tho Pa;isc from America to New Zealand and Australia would sho'rtly be increased. It is riot at all certain that thero will be any such rise in tliß fares to and from Now Zealand to Vancouver and San Francisco. Tho Poslmaster-Ger.cral (Mr. AV. 1). S. Mac Donald) said that there was to be, lie understood, a general increase on alt passenger fares in ' British ships, and the first advice wns that this would apply also to tho. trans-Pacific ships. Since then the Government had had contradictory reports, and was now .conferring with Ihe Union Company to see what tho position was exactly. The ninttcr_ was one in which the Government was directly interested, because the matter wa6 ono which might affect tho conditions under which tho subsidy to the A 7 oncouvcr service was paid, One of the conditions of the payment of tho subsidy was that passengers should 1» carried at certain rates. Tho Government would have to discuss with tho Union Company, which owned tho ships in the run, whether tho proposed increase in tho rates was jnstiliable at present, j =====
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 232, 19 June 1918, Page 6
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203PASSENGER FARES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 232, 19 June 1918, Page 6
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