ALL RED ROUTE.
CABLE NEWS.
BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION
SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION BY BRITAIN. MILLION SUBSIDY REQUIRED. Received March 22, 4.15 p.m. OTTAWA, March 21. Mr Sifton, speaking in the dominion House of Commons, said that conversations he had had with Mr Lloyd George, President of the Board of Trade, and Mr H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, showed that Britain would give sympathetic consideration to any definite proposition with iregard to an All-Red route. A 14-knot service required a subsidy of a 'million sterling, Canada paying .£-325,000, New Zealand £IOO,OOO, Australia £75,000, and Great Britain ie 500,000.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9046, 23 March 1908, Page 5
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97ALL RED ROUTE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9046, 23 March 1908, Page 5
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