BRITISH SHIPPING CONTROL,
SCATHINGLY CRITICISED
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright..
(Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 25.
At the annual meeting of the chamber of Shipping, the newly elected president (XV. Noble) scathingly criticised State Control as extravagant and wasteful. It destroyed initiative, and there had been a huge failure. The nationalisation of shipping was a sure road to bankruptcy. Owing to congestion at ports and the breakdown of land transport many sleapiers were jjuly doipg half their pre-war work. It was a fact that trades and industries which had Ifften decontrolled were already recovering, whereas those still in the grip of fhe State'were going from had to worse. With more shipping than wp possessed in August, 1914, we were only carrying half the volume of trade ear. ried in 1913.
Mr Noble said he had full faith in the Britisher fis a shipbuilder and shipowner, but the present policy of the United States Shipping Board, also our own Dominions (especially Australia and Canada) was unfair competition. Their policy appeared to he to build up a mercantile marine at any cost, relying on the national purse to make good any deficiency.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1920, Page 2
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