THE SHIPPING SHORTAGE
.WIAiPuMNG TO PRODUCERS.
Sir James Allen published on Saturday tho information, whioh has been known to everybody connected with shipping for some days, that the Imperial Government has commandeered for Imperial purposes four of the five ships in the trade between New Zealand and tho West Coast ports of America. - ;, The Minister also gave a warning to shippers that in view of the losses to our. shipping by the activities of. submarines, • and of tho urgent needV for steamers for other, trados in which tho voyago to England was not so long, id was possible that we should have to put up with fewer ships for tie carriage of our produce than wa had later ly had. He had received no; special a'dvico whioh impelled him to give tnis warning, but he considered, it tho duty, of anyone in his position' to state clearly that there, was this possibility. He warned producers especially ot the danger they ran in piling, up large quantities of perishable produce they might never be able to .get away from' this country.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3083, 14 May 1917, Page 4
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180THE SHIPPING SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3083, 14 May 1917, Page 4
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