BRITISH SHIPPING.
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT IN
COMMONS
Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. May 19.
In a debate on the Ministry for Shipping vote, Mr Leslie Wilson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry* for Supplyj said that some control of shipping was necessary for the work of'demobilisation .and iroivitriatv'ou. The Ministry had handed over the building contracts for; 159 ships to British owners who had' suffered losses during..the 'u'brT’nftiP’had .sold US’Tdssels to British, owners and 57 to ‘foreigners.' "’A'lf.dge Trior it had received' 10Wmillions for ships,-which had cost .161 millions. The British shins of over 500 tor.? before the war had aggregated 18.-500,000 tons. This total -wfls-.reduccd to 15,300.000 tens by the beginning oPIOIO. The pre-war tonne.ge* of Hfho United States was 1.700,000; it was now 6,400,(W0 tons.. ■ Britain tons* of bctv ships since* tho Armistice.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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134BRITISH SHIPPING. New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10295, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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