25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 149, 20 March 1939, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

Trade With Pacific Coast Of United States

From “The Dominion, ’* Marell 23, 1011.

Mr. C. Holdsworth, of the Union Compuny, in a statement (made in Sydney) in connexion with the cargo trade with America, announced that the Union Company bad decided to initiate n regular two-monthly cargo service between Australasia and the Pacific Coast ports of North America. The steamers will curry refrigerated cargo, and the service will bo extended to four-weekly periods if the trade warrants, but, he points.out, as in previous pioneering work of this kind the whole of the space will not always be available. Arrangements have been made to charter suitable steamers. Two of these are being specially built.

The Council of the International Shipping Federation, London, has asked its constituent associations to consider the laying-up of a proportion of the ships in order to improve the freights.

The “Novoe Vremya,” St. Petersburg, asserts that Russian statesmen, professing the profoundest detestation of Englund, tried to persuade the Kaiser to join the Franco-Russian alliance. The Kaiser was agreeable to the principle, but was.uiiwilling to provoke the hostility of Englund. because he believed that Europe should combine against America.