AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE
OPPOSITION TO THE SERVICE. London, February 22. The Shipping Gazette declares that no proposed enterprise ever met with fiercer opposition than the Australia l mail scheme. The Syndicate has nu intention of relinquishing the contract —their trouble has been to raitc the debenture capital. The financial world. Ithe Gazette adds, displayed singular indifference to what in other circumstances would have been regarded as a sound investment. POWERFUL INFLUENCES AT WORK IN ENGLAND. Received 24th, 5.2 p.m. Melbourne, February 24. The Postmaster-General states that information has reached him from a reliable and undoubted source not connected with the contractors, that powerful influence is being used in England to block the mail contract. He. declared the Government would protect Australia's interests, and as far as possible the contractors, but no ring or combination would be allowed to impede the progress of the Commonwealth.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 25 February 1907, Page 3
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144AUSTRALIAN MAIL SERVICE Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 25 February 1907, Page 3
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