ALL-RED ROUTE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9137, 13 July 1908, Page 5

ALL-RED ROUTE.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Eleotrio Telegraph Copyright,

! A CANADIAN MOTION. OTTAWA, July 10. The Dominion House of Commons carried by 109 to 47 the following motion dealing with an All-Red route, proposed by Sir Wilfrid Laurier:—"That it is desirable to as soon as possible take steps to carry into effect the Imperial Conference's decision with respect to an All-Red mail service, and expressing Canada's willingness to assume a fair share of the burden, and the hope that Australia and New Zealand will co-operate, with Canada in arranging a definite plan."

One of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's ideals is that of an All-Red route from England, via Canada, to New Zealand and Australia—in fact, an all-red line to circle the earth. He argues that "only five years ago the British Parliament undertook heavy financial responsioilities to assist a,line plying between Liverpool and New York. If the British people put their bands in their pockets to assist a line of steamers plying between Great Britain and a country which did not fly the British flag, then he asks, why should they he.sitate to give better communication between England and a country which boasted of the British flag?" Eul Giev, the Governor-General of Cat a;!a, has plso said that "it was a matter of great surprise to him that the peoples on both sides of the Atlantic shoul.i have tolerated for so long the colossal Imperial blunder of subsidising mail steamers to New York, thereby destroying the natural geographical advantages of the Dominion. The law sof Nature and of geography were on the side of those who demanded that the Transatlantic mails between Great Britain and North America should go via Canada, via New York." It is estimated that the All-Red route could be undertaken if a subsidy of £500,000 couldj be given to a steamship company. The Canadian Government is willing to pay £250,000, and it is argued that the British Government should pay the other half. But it is believed that the Government does not favour a subsidy. Here is a plan, according to the guaranteed tjime-table, which has been laid befo&j the British Government in the periods of the head officials of the Treasury, Board of Tiade, Colonial Office, and ' Post Offic \ as well as the Canadian and Austi-alasian representatives Atlantic Ocean, 25 knots; Pacific Ocean, 18 and 21 knots. L'ave Londay, say, June Ist (Friday), 7 p.m.; arrive Placksod June 2nd, 9 a.m., leave 10 a.m.; arrive Halifax June sth, 6—J p.m., leave 10 p.m.; arrive Vancouver, June 9th, 10 p.m., leave midnigh". Eighteen knots: Arrive Honolulu, June sth, 10 a.m., leave 4 p.m.; arrive Suva June 21st, midnight, leave 6 a.m. 22nd; arrive in Auckland June 24th, 10 p.m., leave 2 a.m. 25th; arrive Sydney June 27th, midnight; London to Sydney, 26 days 5 hours; London to Auckland, 23 days 3 hours. Twenty-one knots: Arrive Honolulu June 14th, 4 p.m., leave 10 p.m.; arrive. Suva June 20th, 9 a.m., leave S p m.; arrive Auckland June 22nd, 10 p.m., leave 2 a.m. 23rd; arrive Sydney, June 25th, 2 p.m.; London to Sydney, 23 days 19 hours; London to Auckland, 21 days 3 hours.