EASTERN CANADA SERVICE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 986, 4 March 1910, Page 3

EASTERN CANADA SERVICE.

After a persistent agitation which has been carried on for more than a decade.success has crowned the movement to establish direct steam connection between Eastern Canada and Australasia, remarks the ''New Zealand Herald."' Arrangements made between the Pacific Railway Company of Canada and the New Zealand Shipping Company secure a monthly service to New Zealand and Australia from New Brunswick in the winter and from Montreal in the summer, with Auckland as a pore of call. The route is by way of Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope alternately, so that a wide commercial sphere is served by the new line, for which tha assistance of the Canadian Government is'hoped. There is already steam communication between New York and Auckland, but this very naturally does not suit the Canadians nor does it greatly assist trade between Auckland and the thriving eastern provinces of Canada. The direct Eastern Canada service will open for colonial produce a valuable and increasing market, in which our merchants will have preferential treatment, and it will enable our distant Canadian fellow colonists to obtain the reciprocal fiscal advantages of the South Pacific. As another thread in the web of shipping lines which is gradually being spun from j Auckland to cover the commercial | world, the new service is exceedingly welcome. Its attainment is largely due to the influences exerted by Canadian delegates to the Chambers of Commerce Congress at Sydney, and by New Zealand delegates passing through Canada to the Imperial Press Conference in London; while ; Mr de Schryver, the New Zealand manager of the Imperial' Export Company of Canada, is particularly entitled to public acknowledgement for the continuous and often seemingly fruitless woik he has devoted to the forming of this valuable maritime connection.