Pacific Mails
p. 12 · Read in the full issue
Fiji Has a Complaint
ALTHOUGH it is a port of such import ance that it has been called “the cross roads of the Southern Pacific,” Suva is now complaining that it has only one effective mail to England a month, in place of two as formerly.
This at first sight is surprising to anyone who knows that the Monterey and Mariposa call at Suva on their way to ’Frisco as well as the Union Company's Aorangi and Niagara. The explanation, apparently, is that there is complete lack of co-operation between the two ship ping companies, with the result that liners on their voyages from Australasia to America call at Suva within a few days of each other.
The position seems to give increased weight to the demands that this par ticular section of trans-Paciflc shipping requires Government attention.
The Governor of Fiji, addressing the Legislative Council in Suva on October 12, said that as the Union Company found itself unable to vary its schedule “it will be necessary to consider whether the Colony is justified in continuing in full the present grant when the question of renewing the mail contract comes for ward.”