MAILS TO LONDON

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 31 January 1911, Page 4

MAILS TO LONDON

IN TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS. AUCKLAA D-VANCOUVER- SERVICE. Auckland, January 28.

"The question whether or not the Vancouver mail service will call at Auckland is now a thing Of tKe past,'' said Sir Joseph Ward to a Star representative. "It is settled definitely that upon the completion of the existing services a few months hence a service, from both a passenger and mail point of view, will be inaugurated with the Makura, Marama, and a third vessel of a similar class which is being built for the purpose. These boats will provide passenger accommodation certainly not behind that trading between New Zealand and the Old Country. I look forward, when the service is re-estab-lished, for an improvement in the 'time occupied in crossing Canada to the Atlantic, and in the steamer service between Canada and England. When the service is in full swing in August next we should be able to carry mails and passengers from Auckland to London in twenty-seven or twenty-eight days, or possibly less. As time goes on tb,ere will necessarily be an improvement, which will insure it becoming an attractive route."