TRADE WITH AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1916, Page 8

TRADE WITH AMERICA.

PROBABLE NEW SERVICES. NEW ZEALAND AND 'FRISCO.' MONTHLY SAILINGS PROPOSED. It is announced by the Weekly Commercial News of San Francisco, in its issue of December 11, which came to hand by the last mail, that Messrs Houlder Brothers and Co., of London, have decided to establish a new steamship service from San Francisco to Australia and New Zealand. Messrs Macondray Brothers and Co. have been appointed as the San Francisco agents for the new line, and it seems that Mr. E, J. Lamb, a member of that firm, was a passenger by the Moana, which arrived in Wellington just before New Yea,r, his purpose being tn make the arrangements for handling the traffic at this end. As Mr. Lamb has apparently not put himself in evidence at Wellington, the presumption is that he has gone on to Sydney, to arrange his agencies there before undertaking the New Zealand part of his mission. According to the Commercial News, it] is intended to put high-class modern freight steamers on the service, and to have monthly sailings from either terminus. Naturally, (he promoters of the service i.xpeet to obtain freights in meat, wool, etc., from the Commonwealth and Dominion ports, and bringing Californian fruit and other Pacific Coast products to antipodean shores. The vessels controlled by the Houlder Company—better known in this part of the world as the Federal-Shire —comprise those of the British Empire Steam Navigation Co., operating the "River" fleet of steamers, 10 in number; the Empire Transport Co.. operating <tho "Transport" fleet of 1!) vessels; and the Houlder line, working the "Grange" steamers, 13 in all No steamer has yet been fixed for the initial voyage on the new line, hut the paper quoted states that this will pro 1 abiy bdono very shortly.

ANOTHER PROPOSED SERVICE, STEAMERS TO BE BUILT.

News of another contemplated new service com.\; from Vancouver. It is stated that the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Puget Sound Railroad Company is at the head of a combination of Seattle business men who propose to run a service from Seattle, the big lumber port, on Puget Sound, near the British Columbian border, to New Zealand and Australia, with calls at other Pacific ports. The proposal is to build three large steamers for combined passenger and freight traffic, and it is stated that contracts for their construction are expected to be placed with American yards within a few weeks.