THE SHIPPING SITUATION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 271, 5 August 1918, Page 4

THE SHIPPING SITUATION

"A SILVEIi LINING TO THE - ■ CLOUD." "Is (here a silver lining to Hip flipping situation, or is the outlook 119 black as it appears to be?" 'i'liis question was addressed to the Hon. D. IT. Guthrio by a member of t.lin deputation ot the Farmers' Union which waited upon him on Saturday. Mr. Guthrie said that he was sorry ho could make no more definite statement, than ho had make a few Jays ago at the conference. But. from the cablegrams, or rather from the reading into\ the cablegrams, that he had • received* since-he had spoken, it seemed to him that there wns in them a tono of greater confidence than there had been a week or ten days previously. The Imperial Government authorities in control of shipping simply sent ships out here with instructions to take a certain quantity of certain kinds of many hales of wool, so many carcasses of meat, so many casks of tallow, and so on. All that the Shipping: Committee hero could do was to apportion the space nvailablo among the several ports. . Tho Government hero could not 6ay what sort of produce wns to go into a ship. H« knew that in the apportionment of spaco it had been said that the smaller companies were not getting justice. Ho would do nil in hie power to see that justice was done to tho smaller corny panics. >