MORE SHIPS BUILDING
Great Increase in Britain (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 17, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, January 16. The quarterly return of Lloyds Register issued to-day shows that the construction of British merchant shipping was 80 per cent, greater at the end of December than a year previously. The British total of new shipping in hanfl, 596,834 tons, represent/ 47.7 per cent of the world’s total and exceeds the aggregate output of seven leading countries abroad. Tlie tonnage now building abroad, 654.588 tons, is about 52,000 tons less 'han the total for the preceding quarter but is 229,000 tons above the figure of a year ago. Iu British yards 93,428 tons were laid down during the last three months, showing an increase of 16,517 tons over the September quarter. In the same period 109,469 tons were begun abroad.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 9
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138MORE SHIPS BUILDING Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 97, 18 January 1935, Page 9
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