CONCERN FELT
OVER SHIPPING RIVALRY
LOADING AUSTRALIAN WHEAT.
(United Press Association —3y Electric Telegraph —Copyright.)
LONDON, December ,3. The chartering of another Italian vessel, presumably subsidised by the Italian Government, to load Australian wheat, has aroused comment, and lent point to the remarks of Mr Baldwin, at Sunderland, that British owners serious problem was to compete with the subsidised foreign ships, and his hint: “We cannot allow our shipping to suffer that kind of competition.” ’['lie Chamber of Shipping adopted the report of the Committee advocateding the abolition of all trade barriers and flag discriminations. »
Tt mentions that inter-Empire trade normally employs only one-third ot British tonnage, therefore there is no future l v r the British Mercantile Marine. unless foreign trade is re-estab-lished. The World Eoenomie Conference should deal with national shipping flior—'minations. as among the mod. mischievous of trade harriers. U fn-eien nations persist in subsidies, it , v ill he necessary for Britain t 0 resort to them.
j 'Pile committee is confidently ulneim; before the Government suggestions for | retaliatory measures,
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 December 1932, Page 5
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