Those £2,500,000

Trans-Pacific Liners Another Crop of Rumours

A NUMBER of contradictory reports are current concerning the plan to build two trans-Pacific liners of about 30,000 tons each, at a cost of about £2,500,- 000 each, to be run in the Canadian- Australasian Line as a set-off to Ameri can competition, and the cost of which will be largely borne by subsidies from the Governments of Great Britain, Can ada, Australia, and New Zealand.

A correspondent of the “New Zealand Herald”, writing from London on March 30, said definitely that fresh tenders had been called for the liners; that the ten ders would be considered in May: and that the chief reason for the delay was the insistence of New Zealand that one of the vessels should be registered in N.Z., and thus be subject to the Dominion’s labour laws.

The London correspondent of the Aus tralian Associated Press, however, said on May 10 that no decision had yet been reached for the construction of the liners and that “the Canadians, who hitherto have been a stumbling block in obtaining the necessary Parliamentary sanction for the plan, now appear to be more favour ably disposed and are expected shortly to fall into line with the other Govern ments concerned”.

That appears to be the position at the moment. "Yer pays yer money and yer takes yer choice!”