MAIL SERVICE QUESTION.
Received 19, 5.12 p.m. Sydney, January 19. Messrs Burns, Philp and Company, in a letter to the Press, reply to a critic's previous letter in reference to the proposed Oceanic mail service, admit that the company is a foreign one, bat claim that the term is applied by Australians to Americans in a very different spirit to the meaning generally attached to it. Tbey do not anticipate that any distinct giin is to be obtained by Australia if the proposal is rejected, because it is associated with a branch of the Anglo-Saxon race, whose home is America. In regard to the cri'icism that it is intended to leave New Zealand out in the cold, they again urge that New Ze-.lard will be much bester served by the proposed connecting line, than by the present three-weekly service, even though the steamers do call at Auckland,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19020120.2.24
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1902, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
147MAIL SERVICE QUESTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 16, 20 January 1902, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in