OVERSEAS TONNAGE
* PROSPECTS NOT BEIGHT. A question was asked ill the House of Bepresentutives yesterday about. the prospects for overseas tonnage for this country. Mr., G. Witty said it was rumoured that some of the seventeen ships promised for the New Zealand trade in the next two months had been diverted. He asked Sir. Slasscv whetuer (here was any truth in the rumour. Mr. Srassey: No information to 'hat effect has reached me. I liave had an official communication from England on tho subject of shipping in the course of the lust day or two, and it is • only right that T should tell the House tliat tho Imperial authorities are not optimistic about keeping np the supply of ships that are required for the Australasian trade. I can't say more than tliat. I have Tin information that any of tho ships that I mentioned the other day have been diverted.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3141, 20 July 1917, Page 4
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151OVERSEAS TONNAGE Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3141, 20 July 1917, Page 4
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