VANCOUVER-SAN FRANCISCO

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8355, 15 February 1913, Page 5

VANCOUVER-SAN FRANCISCO

EXTENSION OF SERVICES. PROPOSAL BY UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY. Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 14. A reporter learned to-day on good authority that there is every prohability of an extension of the Unioi* Steam Ship Company’s service in the Pacific being made within the next year or sjo. It is understood that the extension will be to the Vanoouvei and San Francisco services. _ . A prominent official of the Umofc Company is leaving New Zealand foi Canada early in April, and one of the objects of his visit to Canada and America will be the making of arrange ments for extensive additions to the fleet of mail steamers which are now run between Vancouver, San Francisco, and New Zealand ports. It is reported that the CanadianRailway Company intends either to place a vessel on the run between Auckland and_ Vancouver, or to subsidise the service so that it will bo extended. , _ . _ It is understood that the Union Company has in contemplation the building of a second Niagara, and also mail steamers which will complete the Auckland-Vancouver run in fourteen days, instead of eighteen days as at present. Generally speaking, shipping companies are said to have intentions of paying a great deal more attention to the Pacific service than has formerly been the case. The changes, it is reported, will also include several important alterations in the terminal ports in the intercolonial services.