Eastern Canada Service

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 March 1910, Page 1

Eastern Canada Service

After a persistent agitation which lias been carried on for more than a decade (the West Coast Times remarks) success has crowned tlic movement to establish direct .steam connection between lia.stwn Canada and Australasia. Arrangements made between the Pacific I'ailway Company and the New Zealand .Shipping Company to secure a niomtbly service to Now Zealand and Australia from New Brunswick in the winter and Montreal in the summer, with Auckland as a port of call. The route is by way nl Cape Morn and the Cape of Good Mope alternatively, so that a wide* commercial sphere is served by the new line, for which the assistance of the Canadian Govcninumt i? hoped. There is already steam coiimniiiication between New York and Auckland, but this very naturally docs not suit the Canadians nor does it greatly assist trade bi'twoei! Auckland nad the thriving eastern provinces of Canada. The direct Kacterii Canada, srviee will open for colonial produce a valuable and incraasinp; market, in which our merchants will have preferential treatment, and it will enable our distant Canadian colonists to obtain the reciprocal fiscal advantages of the South Pacific. As another thread in the web of shipj)i.;<r lines which is gradually being spun from Auckland to cover the conimercVal world, the new service is exceedingly welcome. Its iitainmeiit is largely duo to the influences exerted by Canadian delegates to the Chambers of Congress at Sydney, and by Xew Zealand delegates passing htrough Cainada to tho Imperial Press Conference in London: while Mr de Schryver, the Xew Zealand manager of the Imperial Export Company of Canada, is particularly en Oi tied to public acknowledgment for the continuous and often seemingly fruitb>s work In , h:i!s devoted to th-.-; forniiiiig of this valuable maritime connection