AUSTRALIA V. SHIPPING COMBINE
A MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. (Rec. March 25, 8.5 run.) Melbourne, March 24. The Minister for Shipping states that the Commonwealth Government, had no intention of sitting down (jnietly and allowing itself to he squeezed out. by a bin shipping ring, it considered that no country in the. world.was likely to suffer more than Australia through the ant.on of the shipping ring. An extension of the shipbuilding programme of the Perioral Government, by the construction of four more steel vessels, would shortly receive Cabinet's consideration. The vessels would be ten thousand tons each, fitted with refrigerating space, and would have a speed of 12§ knots.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7
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108AUSTRALIA V. SHIPPING COMBINE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7
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