AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING LEGISLATION.
Press Association—Copyright. Received February 16 5.23 p.m. London February 15. Speaking at a dinneriin connection with the Chamber of Shipping Sir William Robson the new 'AttorneyGeneral referred'to a passage in the annual report of the Chamber referring to the Commonwealth shipping legislation and emphasised the statement that the Motherland cheerfully bore substantially the whole burden of the navy without which the vast coastline of Australia would he unable to preserve immunity from foreign attacks for twelve months. The Motherland should at least exright to trade without practically prohibitive restrictions along the coast it had to guard. ( Cheers.) The statesmen of Australia should be courteously but clearly informed that this legislation would not pass unnoticed and would not fail if persisted in to produce an effect on public opinion in Britain which Australian statesmen would do well to ponder.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9076, 17 February 1908, Page 5
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141AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING LEGISLATION. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9076, 17 February 1908, Page 5
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