DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4515, 15 January 1923, Page 3

DAIRY FARMERS’ UNION.

PRODUCERS’ SHIPPING LINE. A supplied- z report of the monthly meeting of the Dairy Farmers’ Union refers to the possibility of establishing a producers’ shipping line, and states : A peep into the actual position of shipping control will steady the wildest dreamer or optimist ever born. Our goods, inward and outward, are carried by several differently named companies'. In reality they are all one. - The P- and O. Co. in 1917 acquired the whole of the ordinary shares of the N.Z. Shipping Co. In 1918 the same company purchased all of the same class of shares in the Union S.S. Co. of New Zealand. The Union S-S. Co. is Australasian agent for. the Canadaian-Paclflc Ocean Services,, tLd. Tile Shaw, Saville i and Albion Co. is connected with the International Mercantile Marine Co., with which J. D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Lord Piri’ie are associated. The P. and O. is associated with the Blue Anchor Line, the BritishIndia Steam Navigation Co-, Ltd., the AusWalasian United Steam Shipping •Co., Ltd., etc., embracing by way of share capital a voice (by no means silent) in our Bank of N.Z., Bank of 'Australasia, Bank of New South Wales, Pacific Phosphate Co., Ltd., Western Telegraph Co., Nelson Bors., Ltd., and so on, which serves sufficiently to fehow what hope there issof establishing and maintaining a producers’ shipping line.