CANADA AND FRANCE.
—♦ A deputation of Canadian merchants and manufacturers recently waited upon the Minister for Trade and Customs, and laid before him a project to develop direct trade between Canada and Iranee after (he war. It was stated that a proposal, which had been submitted to file French Government, had been endorsed by V Association d’Expansion Economique, a body composed of the presidents of the various French Chambers of Commerce, which had readily undertaken to assist in carrying it out. Briefly, the proposal is to tit out two commercial trains, one stocked with samples of Canadian products, to tour France, and the other to travel through Canada with French goods. Four of the French railway companies— the Paris-Lyon- Mediterranee, the Paris-Orleans, the Chemins de ler de I’Etat, and the ( hemins de fer du Midi —have agreed to grant free transportation of these Canadian products on their lines, while the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk Companies, and probably the Canadian Northern, would reciprocate by the free transportation of French goods. Free ocean carriage for the sample goods of both countries has also been promised by the Compagnie Gen e rah' Tr a nsa 11 an t i quo.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1685, 13 March 1917, Page 4
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198CANADA AND FRANCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1685, 13 March 1917, Page 4
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