ALL RED MAIL ROUTE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 69, 17 April 1909, Page 2

ALL RED MAIL ROUTE

A FEDERAL MINISTER'S OI'IXION

Melbourno, April ]f|. Hie l'o*l master llenernl, referring to Canada's suggestion for an "All Red" | route i-onferenee, declared as far as lie wus eoneeriieil, that vessels must be ' owned liv the Ooverumejit. He realised that the work of building the virions parts of the Empire together more elosi-lv could be dene properly and adequately, but by tin- Governments themselves. Ho favoured something being done i n the way of preferential trade relation* between Canada and Australia. HON. MILLAR INTERVIEWED. By Ttlegrapli.-Press Association. •ri rr „•„ 4 acklan< l. Friday. IHe Hon. Millar mlerviewed regardills' the cablegram received this morning said it simply meant there was no (lia-iici- of Australia going into the "All tied service as outline,! l )V v -M nda. U must alleet New' Zealand to a considerable extent, because the amount of the •subsidy proposed to be received from Australia would not be forthcoming and would require to be borne by Rritaifi, Canada and Xew Zealand, because there was nothing in the proposals as submitted that steamers should be owned bv the (Jovcrninents. The Commonwealth" bad already entered into a mail iu> rangenieiit t'm- which six vessels were to be built, and there was little elinnce of the Government undertaking the construction of an " All Red " service.