THE ALL-RED ROUTE
AUCKLAND. PROPOSED AS TEEMISAL POUT.
By Telegraph-Press Association. Napier, February 6What would seem to be a most important matter to New Zcahad at tho present time was discard by a aid" representative with '.dr. J. 13. ■wn, wL.is well known lo business [.eople all over New Zealand. Mr. Clarkson polntol out that the New Zoaland Government is paying .'JO.OOO.a year to tho Union Steam Ship Company i'or the Vancouver mail route, and that next month it would be necessary to renew arrangements in connection with o payment of tho subsidy. .'I lie main poiii i'or consideration is the terminal Sort for the„,s,ervicc. At present Sydney is the port, and Mr. Clarkson :s strongly of opinion that it should be change;! to Auckland, in view of the great possibility of ships bemg delayed "» Aus. iralia on account of industrial uoubles. Tlie fact that Australia eontnba'es noth,„B to the sute'dy is also '■••ortliy of ronsiderr.licm. It was douK- ' v Mr. Clarkson whether. New Zca- , laud 'has benefited to tl.o »tent of IXOOO during the nast year ovnig to ihe manv delays that .'wo occurred. ,ind' iie was of opinion (hat Austranan people wishing to travel by lie routo should come across to Auckland In intercolonial steamers. By making Auckland tho terminal port, ond provisio.ung vessels there, tho tradespeople would no doubt btnefit considerably. In. May last. Mr. Clarkson discussed tho matter with Sir Roliort Borden and the Minister of Trade and '.omuiereo at Ottawa, both'of whom were strongly in favour of Aueklnnd b™? made the wllinal port for the All-Red ionic. "It surelv behoves the Government of New Zealand," says Mr. Clarkson, "to consider Uio position."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 114, 7 February 1920, Page 6
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277THE ALL-RED ROUTE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 114, 7 February 1920, Page 6
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