The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-11

The Cali of March % has the follow
ing article bearing on the Oceanic and
other steamship lines calling at Homo
lulu:
Daniel OConnor of Sydney, New
South Wales, member of the Austria
liam Parliament for thirty-one years
and twice Cabinet Minister, thinks the
United States should substitute it's
steamship companies. All of the lines
running TO Australia. he says, are sub
sidized by the governments of Great
Britain, France. Germany and Japan
Even the little commonwealth of New
Zealand manages to give $4,000 a year
to a company running from there to
Canada. and in order to compete sue
cessfully the American lines must al
so be helped.
When seen yesterday Mr.. O'Connor
made the following statement of his
convictions:
From nv connection with the Par
lament of my adopted country for a
period of thirty-one years, as a mem
Der of both houses of the Legislature
and as a Cabinet Minister on two oc-
casions. I may be presumed to have
a good knowledge of all conditions re-.
lating to the public welfare of Aus
tralia.
1t was from experience gained in.
public and commercial life that l ven
tured to offer, in my interview on my
arrived here two months ago, my
strong advice to the governmental au-
thoritfes of the United States to place
their steamship owners on terms or
absolute trading equality with the
owners of the lines of steamers trad
ing to Australia that are largely, ana
In my opinion most properly, subs1-
died by the governments of Great
Britain and Ireland, as well as by
France Germany and Japan.
On looking over the files of Austria
liam newspapers that arrived by the
Sierra on Monday last I found in the
sydney Daily Telegraph Zone of the
leading newspa pers of Australasia) OF
the goth of February, under the head
ing New Vancouver Service, part1c-
uiars regarding direct steamship SER
vice which has been arranged to con-
meet Vancouver and New Zealand. II
appears that a contract had then been
signed at Ottawa, the Minister OF
Trade and Commerce acting for Can
ada, and r. A. Alley for the Bucknali
steamship lines of London, which is
to supply the steamers.
THINK BOATS TOO SLOW.
1t is understood that Vancouver
business circles have INDUCED in cr1t1-
cism of the fact that the boats are only
to make ten knots an hour. The sub
sidy of $50, 900 a year Chat is s1000OO)
is to be divided equally between cana
da and New Zealand According to a
Vancouver correspondent there VIII De
six sailings from each end every year
under the arrangement. 1t is stated
that thu Dominion Government of Can
ada is anxious to increase trade re-
lations with New Zealand as much
as possible, and it has been decided
to have a creditable display illustra-
tive of the natural resources and agrl-
cultural capabilities of Canada at the
international exposition to be held in
Christchurch, New Zealand, in Novem-
Der next and the following months.
| The first steamer under this subsidy
| is to arrive in New Zealand this month
of March.
| Nav l not say to the great United
States of America with more than
eighty millions of a population, that If
the statesmen of New Zealand, which
has only a population of just over
eight hundred thousand, can see their
way clear, on commercial lines, to give
i a subsidy from that colony's treasury
of e1o,ooo a year (s5O,00o), surely the
I, Government of the United states, with
its inexhaustible resources, should give
I the proper subsidy to the Oceanic
Steamship Company, which company
| runs its steamers every three weeks
from San Francisco to Honolulu, Paso
Page. Samoa, american dependencies),
and then on to Auckland, New Zealand,
and to sydney, Australia.
HEARS OF LOSSES.
have heard since my arrival in San
Francisco that the Oceanic Steam
ship Company has been running It's
steamers between America and Aus
tralia at a great loss. That certainly
should not be so. If the Oceanic Com
pany ceased running its steamships TO
Australia, it would mean in many re-
spects a great loss to the Australian
people I should indeed be sorry 10
hear of the withdrawal of the steam