COSTS OF SHIPPING
AMERICAN INQUIRY BASIS FOR SUBSIDIES (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. An investigation of merchant shipping costs, on which will be partly based the subsidies to be paid to American shipping lines, will be made in the next few weeks by Mr. E. E. Johnson, representative in the Orient of Iho United States Maritime Commission, who has arrived at Auckland. Mr. Johnson’s headquarters are in Hong Kong, and he wall return there when he has completed his New Zealand visit. Mr. Johnson said 1 that the American subsidies were not more than parity insofar as American shipping costs were greater than those in other countries. He explained that the United States would make up the difference. llis visit to New Zealand was to see that liis Government did not pay more than the difference to American lines.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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140COSTS OF SHIPPING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20106, 28 November 1939, Page 5
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