THE MAIL SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7804, 22 April 1905, Page 2

THE MAIL SERVICE.

STiIEXEMT 8! SU!. 6. IMft THE QQEST2OI ( F GOITEIBOTIOI (Keceivod April 21, 11. Ie a.m.) SYIINKY, April 30. Messrs Hums, I'hilp, mod Co. toil".* entertained Sir J. O. Ward tod a large company, Colonel liurns preaiding. 'lTic Chairman said that .>ooplo here looked upon New 55eaand us a sort, of |iaradii>e. ontffcef topic lib prosperous and contented. Sir .1 osv|>h Wuitl, referring to U* Frisco nmil rn-vicc, said liuat Sep V'uland for the lurt thirty yean or. more had been largely responsible or the continuance of this most tub >ortant service. Nuturally, for any ses Australia made of It, ft was .■xpccted she should pay a ivasoaaMe amount towards its continuance f while they did not wish to clip Id as outside persons in order to bring about difficulty as between the Federal Government and the Oceanic Company, they felt it was an inadequate amount for Australia to offer to pay two shillings poundage for mail matter to enable the Amerlcan service to bo carried on wife England. It was contended in Kew. Zealand that if they .were prepared to do what they did for tbe toir veyonee of of their mailv via Huez| the Federal Government ought to be prepared to pay a fair amount., When the present ocean contract expired New Zealand would ask why, she was paying so much (or a sets vice the greatest benefit of which went to Australia. He hoped the Federal I'ostmaster-tiencral woutd look beyond a narrow view and r*> gard it as being a mail werviee of us much importance to Australia ae to New Zealand, whero ft oaty; touched en route to Sydney., lb alluded to thin becuuae New /faiand was anxiouh not to low) the twaiOU to be obtained, both by New 'fiH and Australia, by having a oouncction with the United State*. They would have been acting very stupidly if they had not seized the opportune ty to develop trade with America, imrticularly when she gave an op* portunity of conveying mails by an alternative line to England Crow purely a business standpoint. New. Zealahd was anxious that the Vancouver line should be extended there as well. Blie proposed to gtve the modest contribution of £20,000 per annum, to enable this to be dmm, and ho maintain the 'Frisco service side by side with the Vancouver , service.