UNSINKABLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 92, 25 April 1913, Page 5

UNSINKABLE.

THE U.S.S. CO.’S NIAGARA.

NOTHING BETTER

IBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright]

[United Press Association > Melbourne, April 24

Speaking at the Niagara luncheon, Mr Fisher declared that the Niagara, was one of the looms which were weaving a better' and most lasting understanding between the people of the

Overseas Dominions. New Zealanders desired a better understanding, more trade and more commerce.

Sir James Mills, 'replying, said that though the Canadian-Austral asian line was under the control of the Union Company it was a cosmopolitan affair, because now it was controlled as much by Australian as New Zealand money. The more Australia and New Zealand worked together the better it would be for the Anglo-Saxons in these Dominions. The Niagara was' the largest colonial-owned ship afloat. Though now coal driven, she would, on reaching Vancouver, have her 5000ton oil fuel tanks filled, which would be sufficient to bring her to Sydney and take her hack to Vancouver. These tanks rendered her unsinkable. She was the only unsinkable ship afloat. Captain Gibbs stated that opinion on the Clyde was that nothing on the same level as the Niagara had ever left Britain.

NEW ZEALAND HUMORS DENIED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Sydney, April 25. Sir James Mills, who was a passenger by the Niagara has received a cable from Mr Borden (Premier of Canada) conveying congratulations. On the arrival cf the vessel, Sir James Mills denied that his visit had specific reference to shipping matters. Regarding the New Zealand rumours of a probable increase in freights, he merely remarked that imaginative people were sometimes guilty of misstatements.