The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-12-10
SHIPPING Intelligence
(Later shipping News on Page Fiv)
THE .LOG-BOOK

brought here by the recently arrived
steamship Makura that Sir Thomas
Mills manager of the Union Steamship
Company, has announced that another
steamer is being secured to replace the
Aorangi in the Canadian-Australian
line after the November voyage. The
new steamer will come i'm February.
News is brought from New Zealand
that arrangements have been effected
to change the itinerary of the PENN
sular and oriental liners whereby a call
was made at New Zealand, and agita-
ton was under way for a service with
Canada. The z. & o. liners are to
continue their voyage from sydney
to Auckland, beginning with the Malwa
in February.
New Zealand newspapers comment
on the necessity of steamship line
between New Zealand and British Co.
lumbia ports. The Auckland Times
and Sydney Morning Herald in COM
menting on the proposals in the United
States to substitute shipping on the Pa
cific, speak favorably of the re-estab-
lishment of a service between Sydney,
Auckland and San Francisco. The
Sydney paper says: THE re-establish-
ment of the direct mail line with San
Francisco would have a beneficial eff
feet on Australian trade. 1t is true
that the Union Company's line to Van
couver supplies us with an admirable
I,,f
be in direct touch with the United
States, as we were when the Oceanic
line was in existence. Our only means
OF direct communication is by means
| of the Australia Mail line, which car
ries mails generally no further than
Auckland, where they are brought by
New Zealand tseamers but which car
ries no passengers. If the United
States grants such a subsidy as will
lead to the re-estabishment of direct
intercourse it will give us two Ameri-
can strings to our bow, and it need not
unduly handicap our own subsidized
service to Vancouver"
| The Auckland Times says: "A Cana
dian line runs from Vancouver to Bris-
bane, transshipping New Zealand pas
rsengers at Fiji and there is enough
trade between New Zealand and Cali
/ tornla to maintain a regular cargo line.
4 II is quite certain that any direct pasI
lsenger service between San Francisco
and New Zealand would offer the same
inducements, compared with any in
DetWee New Zealand and London by
the Peninsular and Oriental service
and it would have an excellent pros
pect of taking the lions share of the
cargo trade The only section of the
direct route which would be tabooed
TO liners flying the British flag is that
between Honolulu and San Francisco.
and though this is a regrettable draw
pack it is quite unreasonable to re-
gard 1t as unbearable. We subsid re
mail lines to Fiji, to Tahiti and to
HEuheN Why not substitute instead
Br fish line from New Zealand to
vancouver, calling at San Francisco
10 receive and deposit mails We hear
continuously of the wonderful expansion
or the Pacific trade and see with our
own eyes how the other countries are
pushing into it. Only New Zealand
is LEFT isolated, and the first break in
our recent isolation is due, not to anv
state action nor to any local effort. bat
TO the extension of a great London
company. But the P. & o. liners go
west, not northeast, and much as we
snail be advantaged by their appear
ance in New Zealand waters, they DO
not assist in solving our mail problem.
The only effective solution for that vi
tai problem is, we repeat, the reestab-
llshment of San Francisco connection
1t would be well worth our VIII lie Tn
secure the connection by American
steamers, and to participate with the
washington authorities in some ar
rangement to that effect. But If our
government so determined a British
line could be brought into being, and
the British flag carried into the Golden
Gate Our local shipping companies
would certainly consider the question
II they were convinced that the govern
ment were determined. and that an
encouraging subsidy would be paid.
There is no need for high speeds nor
Tor enormous vessels. Fair speed and
comfortable steamers would meet all
requirements for the time being. see
ing that the odd days lost by econo-
MIXING fuel on the Pacific would be
more than recovered when our. mail
bags were safely placed on the Ameri-
can postal carriages. It is impossible
to conclude that this Diminion, with
its increasing American trade, and with
its constant stream of incoming and
outgoing passengers, could not offer
sufficient. subsidy to make good any
initial loss which a direct line to San
Francisco might sustain. We submit
! that III WOuld no mucb mora buSinacc