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The Panama Canal. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,— ln regard to distance of the variom. mail and traffic routes as against Panama, I I have much pleasure in supplying distances for all these. Taking the matter : carefully into consideration, anybody can | see that the Panama route, as far as N«w i Zeal--'d is concerned, is an impossible route , and ox no benefit to us, and that it will not | bring New Zealand thousands of miles nearer Great Britain. — I am, etc., A. typBITZSON. Dunedin, August 26. New Zealand Shipping Company, , through Magellan Strait.— From Wellington, via Cape Horn. 4540 miles; Cape Horn to Rio, 2263; Rio to Teneriffe, 3545; Teneriffe to Plymouth, 1469—11,822 miles.. Wellington to Monte Video, 5960 miles; Monte Video to Plymouth (calling at Rio). j 5965- -11.925 miles. 1 Shaw-Savill Line.— Wellington to Rio. 6360 miles; Rio to Plymouth, 4970—11,830 miles. Via Panama to Plymouth.— Wellington tq Tahiti, 2350 miles; Tahiti to Colon, 4509;) Ihe canal, 16; canal to St. Thomas, 1020, St. Thoma-3 to Plymouth, 35*0—11,465 mifes. Difference in favour of Panama route owe, C.IDB Horn 257 miles. Fourteen-knofc boat Wellington to Colon, 22 days ; canal, including looks, 46 miles, one day arxl a-half (perhaps two) : 14-knott boat Panama to Plymouth, via St. Thomas, 13i days ; stoppage at St Thomas, hfeif ivy, — 37i d-ays. A, faster service will very likely bs utilised in ttie Atlantic, say 16-knot boat; tha-t would! be 12 clays, or one day and a-half less. Mail* — From Sydney, via Suez, via Brin-. cliii. 11,310 mike ; from Sydney, via Panama, to PI j mouth, 12,618 miles; Sydney, via Vancouver, to Plymouth, 12,869 miles (third! of th'<a distance is by rail) ; New York la Hongkong, -fia Panama and Honoluhr11,633 miles; New York to Hongkong, vi£ .Su-pz. 11.580 miles; New York to Japa» (Yokohama), via Panama. *720 miles. New York to Auckland;^ »ia/ Panama — New York to Panama direct, 1972 miles; canal, 46 miles; Colon to Auckland, via Tahiti, 6731 mil-ec— • 8749 miles. New York to Frisco and A.uckland—New York to 'Frisco, by rail, 33691 miles , 'Frisco to Honolulu, 210f» -siles :; Honolulu to Pango, 2250 miles, Piftgo «tf Auckland, 1580 mile*— -0289 mile*. Halifax' Vancouver- Auckland— Halifax to Vancouver, 3658 miles; Vancouver to Honolulu, 2430 miles ; Honolulu to Suva, 2760 miles ; Suva to Auckland, 1140 miles— 9Bßß miles. Halifax to Southampton, 2548 mile/ : Halifax to Liverpool. 2459 mile*

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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 16

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The Panama Canal. TO THE EDITOR. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 16

The Panama Canal. TO THE EDITOR. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 16

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