CANADIAN GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 43

CANADIAN GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.

' The management of the Canadian Grand .Trunk .railway system has recently establiefied an industrial department, and the .European traffic manager (Mr Fred. G. Salter) has communicated to our represen-

tative with the delegates to the Imperial Press Conference the following outline of the 6Cope of the new departure : — The Industrial Department of Canada's Grand Trunk railway system has recently been established by Mr Charles M. Hays, the general manager, and has been en-

trusted to Mr William P. Fitzsimons, Commissioner of Industries, Grand Trunk Railway Building, Montreal. The Grar.d Trunk railway system intends to assist in reciprocal trad-3 development between Europe, th-2 Dominion of Canada, and th-2 otlier ov-asea Domin.ons of the Empire,

and to spread the knowledge of Canadian natural resources and openings for new in- ' dustries among the manufacturers of the ! Empire, and also to call the attention of ' capitalists to the numerous safe opportumI ties for investment in the Dominion. Mr i Hays has organised a department charged

wi.h graat potentialities for the increase and development of t.ie already large and rapidly-exteuding trade interchange be tween the Mother Country, Canada, and the other oversea dominions of the British Crown. Rio fa*', the great railways of Canada have been able to do little more

than take stock to mow the land as it 1 were — of the magnificent inheritance they possess adjacent and tributary to their lines. Neither the will nor the ability has been lacking, but they have been without the machinery to 6pread in the proper quarters correct and up-to-date information

of the resources and possibilities of ths regions traversed by their respect he systems. To effect this, the active and sympathetic co-operation of the Chambers of Commeroa of the great centres of the world's trade is earnestly invited. They can, by allowing their offices to be available

for the spread of information, by placing their members in direct communication with Mr Fitzsimons and his staff, and by making the fullest iise of the new department in securing answers to inquiries re- , «.pocting Canadian trade and industrial ' matters, help to promote the interests of

' *'■ renters on a reciprocal basis. They will keep the stream of mutual knowledge and commercial activity between this country and the Dominion fresh and aliwu Fossilised conservatism, legarthy, and lack of initiative will no longer be charged against the manufacturers of this country.

and their methods will be a« modern am their character, for honourable dealing is ancient, if they co-operate with the work of Mr Fitzsimons and avail themselves of the services of the new department, which are willingly given, without charge of any description.