NAVIGATION MATTERS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 September 1910, Page 3

NAVIGATION MATTERS.

AROUND AUSTRALASIAN

COASTS.

STATEMENT BY THE ATTORNEY.

GENERAL

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGHAPII-COPTRIOnT.] [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION^] (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) MMWOUR.NE, This Day.

Mr Hughes (the Federal AttorneyGeneral) states that the Navigation Bill now before the Senate ensures that all vessels engaged in the coastal trade must observe the same rates and industrial conditions as arc observed by Australian ships.

The Bill, he says, docs not provide that a subsidy should be given in order to place local shipping companies in a bettor position than for-eign-owned vessels, because all coinpanics must conform to the Australian conditions.

In this connection the Australasian Federated Seamen's Union have asked the Dominion uovcrnmont to legislate in order to compel all shipping companies trading with New Zealand to comply with the industrial conditions and rates of wages in the. Bill now before the Federal Parliament, or if they refuse to do so the Union rec|iiesled the Federal Government to subsidise all local oi Australian companies that conform to the Australian industrial conditions.