AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS.

PACIFIC COAST TRADE. AN INCREASING VOLUME. (United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) OTTAWA. September 25. interviewed at Vancouver to-day, Captain Robert Dollar (Pacific Coast Shipping Dean and owner of tiie Dollar Steamship lines) declared that in a few years the centre of the world’s commerce would be the Pacific. Western Canada must start now and lay 'the foundation. She should start manufacturing raw materials and get. them across the ocean. Even to-day, the Pacific ocean was increasing in commerce so fast that it was hard to keep track of it all. He advocated cheap cable communication between all sides of the Pacific by business interests. CANADIAN TRADE. THE NEED OF ASSISTANCE. OTTAWA, September 2-1. ‘‘Canadian manufacturers and producers are seeking new world markets and to hold the existing japes, under a heavy handicap compared with United States competitors,” declared J. E. Walsh (General Manager of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association) before a .conference 6f business heads at Vancouver. Giving instances of the difference on the Pacific coast alone, he quoted figures to show that while United States Steamship lines were getting a yearly subsidy for Pacific Ocean services, mostly mail contracts .to the amount of 4f millions, the Canadian lines were getting £506,000. United States subsidies provided for regular sailings to South America. Sydney, Auckland, Melbourne, and Manilla. Canada was paying less subsidies than a decade ago. Steamship subsidies were important to the development of Canadian trade, and very necessary to the extension of the service from Vancouver to the Antipodes and other parts of .the Empire.