SERIOUS POSITION OF SHIPPING
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2000 Fewer Vestelt Than in 1914 BRITAIN WANTS ACTION
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(Eeceived 25, 11.45 n.m.) LONDON, Feb. 24. With 2000 fewer cargo and passenger vessels than before the outbreak of the Great War, British shipping' is in a serious position, is the conclusion of the Chamber of Shipping in its annual report. The chamber is undertaking a survey to enable the loaperial Gonfer* ence to determine on the necessary action to defend shipping from foreign discrimination and uneconomic competftion. The report eonsiders that there is no indication that foreigners, whose tonqage increased 400,000 last year, conteoiplate any reduction or intend to abandon the methods by which the position has been created. The survey will take the form of a Memorandum, which will probably first be submitted to the British Government and then forwarded to Dominion representatives at the Imperial Conference. Thefe is not time to contact Dominion representatives before their arrival in England, but the various High Coaimissioners mhy be consulted, Much of the information is confidential. The Chamber eonsiders that the present position cannot .be over-rated.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 5
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