COASTAL SEA TRANSPORT
GOVERNMENT SHOULD FOSTER HARBOUR BOARD'S REPRESENTATIONS At the combined Harbour Boards conference held in Whakatane in the interests of the East Coast area last Tuesday the following resolution was adopted for presentation to the Prime Minister by the M.P.s concerned:— "That it is the considered opinion of this conference that the Government .should foster and encourage coast-wi.se. sea transport additional to motor and rail transport—that this conference submits that coastwise sea transport encourages the recruitment of personnel for the Navy and Mercantile Marine—that coast-Avise sea transport is the cheapest known means of the transport which in all other maritime countries is encouraged in the interests of national economy—that coastwise, sea transport provides a national means of transport in an emergency or national disaster, which fact has been amply exemplified during the present. Avar emergency/' *
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 26, 21 November 1944, Page 7
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137COASTAL SEA TRANSPORT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 26, 21 November 1944, Page 7
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