PANAMA CANAL.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 64, 31 May 1912, Page 2

PANAMA CANAL.

The opening of tho Panama Canal will affect the following saving of distances for such ships as may choose the now and shorter route:—Europe to San Francisco, 1200 miles, and to Valparaiso, 2100 miles; Britain to New Zealand 1600, and to Autsralia 800 miles. Between American and Oriental ports tho saving will bo as follows:—New York to Shanghai, 1400 miles; Montreal to Sydney, Australia, 2740 miles; and between New York and Australasian ports tho saving of distance will average about 2400 miles.