EXPLORING AUSTRALIA
PREM IF.R’S WARNING
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, April -I
A conference of sliircprcsentatives was opened at Sydney to-day, in order to evolve plans to improve the overseas transport facilities. The Federal Prime -Minister, Mr S. Bruce, in the course of liis inaugural address, stressed the point that the delegates were not simply entering upon a freights discussion, hut that they should give the public the fullest information regarding the position and the problems to he faced. I hoy would thus allay the suspicion which exists largely at present, that the shipping interests rapacity, in the shape of excessive freights, is retarding the country’s development, and is strangling struggling industries. If such a suspicion were well b '’tided, he said, it would become the d tv of the Government and of the pe'op e to ta e such measure as would safegu. nl national interests.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 6
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146EXPLORING AUSTRALIA Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 6
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