SHIPPING CONTROL
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
INTERCOLONIAL TRADE NOT AFFECTED
A cablegram appeared in .yesterday's papers, referring to tho activities'of some officer in Australia called the Shipping Controller, ol' whose existence nothing had previously been hoard here. The cablegram was'not very explicit on the point, but it appeared tram the text that this officer would have power to control the movements of vessels in the Australian-New Zealand trade. This is. not the case. The Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Marine, stated yesterday that from a communication received from 'Jumuon by i the JVew Zealand Government it was evident that the Shipping Controller referred to was an Imperial officer, and that ho would bo concerned not with vessels .in the intercolonial trade, but only with oversea vessels trading between Britain and Australasia, which might have for the the purposes of trade to call at ports m Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Kussell added that it appeared that the Imperial Government, for Imperial reasons, were controlling the whole shipping interests of the Empire
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 6
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172SHIPPING CONTROL Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 6
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