NEW PACIFIC LINERS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1931, Page 3

NEW PACIFIC LINERS

CAN ADI AN PA Cl V IC-UNJ ON MERGER. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, August o. The Sydney “Sun” correspondent at Vancouver cables that, behind the Union S.S. Go’s Wellington announcement yesterday that the Canadian Pacific Railway Coy. is taking a leading interest in the new Canadian-Austra-linn line there may come some important developments during the next few years. The “Empress” liners (of tho Canadian Pacific Railway Coy.) trade in the Pacific, between Vancouver and the Orient, a,re doing a very satisfactory business, which is in direct distinction to the falling-off of trade and the cutting of rates that are prevalent in the Atlantic. There may be no changes in service from Vancouver to Sydney for several months, hut, eventually, the intention is to instal greatly improved, ships, and to double the number of sailings, so as to take full advantage of the improvement in the trade under the new Australian-Canadian treaty. In short, it is intended to build faster and better communications across the Pacific, and, perhaps, to circle the Pacific Ocean with special sailings from Vancouver to New Zealand. Australia, Manilla and the Orient.