CANAL DUES
MERCHANT SERVICE PROTEST
[United Press Association —By Electric Telegra/ It—Copy r ght. ] (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, Alarch 8. The Imperial .Merchant Service Guild is meeting next week. It is intended to strongly attack Suez Canal ship-ping dues, which members regard as an unjust imposition on British vessels, handicapping British trade. A report by the Guild shows one vessel paid thirty-eight- hundred sterling for (Yxible voyage. One passenger ship paid thirty thousand yearly . The Guild paints out that the Canal's profiles are swollen yearly despite the recently slight reductions. Gil AN DI’S DECLARATION. CALCUTTA. Alarch 8. Ghandi declared he would get the agreement ratified !>v the All r.idia Congress meeting at Karachi at the end of the present month,, If the younger men were dissatisfied with what the working committee had done, they could move a no-confidence and carry’ on i he Congress work themselves. Thousands of political prisoners are being released daily and already trade is beginning to look up.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1931, Page 5
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165CANAL DUES Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1931, Page 5
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