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CANADA TO AUSTRALASIA. BY A CANADIAN STEAMSHIP CO. [SPECIAL TO TIMES.] AUCKLAND, April 10. News by the English mail gives some interesting particulars of an important scheme for the e&tablislimenU of an “Ail Red” route to the Australasian colonies through Canada. Earlj' m March it was announced that a new 'shipping company, to be known as the imperial Shipping Cb., had applied for legislation m Canaan and .had met with a favorable reception from a committee of the Dominion Parliament. The company, which has among its backers a number of the leaders of the shm-' world, proposes to run a line of 25-knot steamers from Blacksod Bay (Ireland) to Halifax, whence passengers are to be convoyed by rail to Vancouver, and thence to their destination liv the 'company’s own 20-knot vessels. The headquarters of the company are to be in Montreal, and its nominal capital is £200.000, though the sum required. according to the estimate, is £1,300.000.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3192, 11 April 1911, Page 2
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160AN ALL-RED LINE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3192, 11 April 1911, Page 2
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