DOMINIONS' COMMISSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1914, Page 5

DOMINIONS' COMMISSION

.STEAMv'IIIP JSKUVICE. AI'STRALASiA.Y BLUEROOKS. 3-y Cable —Press Association—Copyright London. January 14. Refoi'e the. Dominions' Commission, Mr. Austin Wilson, of the Hull and jSarn-diy Railway, who recently toured Ai-'.-d-raLa- a::d -New Zealand, advocated a regular steamship service tor tlie tieVtlopnieilt of new markets. He recommended a. moderate subsidy from the overc-i dominions for at least a year until the service, became self-supporting. -Mr. Ross Johnson, general manager of Ihe Port of 1 Iristol, testified to the inaiieijiiate steamship service, to Australia and Xew Zealand, adding that New Zealand and other overseas countries asked for better facilities for trading with the. large area, directly served through Rristol. Three bluebooks of minutes of evidence taken >hy tho Dominions' Commission in Australia and Netv Zealand ha vn 'been issued, in which IHI2 pages are j devoted io the 'Commonwealth and 233 in Xew Zealand.

I STBAMKU SK.UVK'K TO lICI.L. I Times-Svihiey Sun Special Cables. I Received IS. 7.J5 ]i.m. | London, January 14. Al the Dominions' ConimisMini. t 11:11- . missioner Wilson suggested that the ' Dominions' (ioveriimcnis should subsi- j dij-e the steamship service to Hull, lie 1 was satisfied tint with niic.li a subsidy, :■ ■before (lie end of the year Hull wouid be in a position In deal with the. largest vessel engaged in the Australi'.'.n trade. ' KMPIR-K J)B VKLOPMEXT I10A1!J>; Received,Hi, 12.20 a.m. London, .lanuary 15. The newspapers publish long extracts from the Dominions' Commission's evidence in Australia, particularly .Mr. Deakin's, in support of Mr. Beanchamp's schefne for ail Empire Development. Hoard. -Mr. Tredwen, chairman of the Aus- - irabisian section of ibe London Chirm- I lier el' t'oinineree. advocated a standardised bill of hiding for all Australian lines.