FEEDING THOSE WHO STARVE US

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 10

FEEDING THOSE WHO STARVE US

A. of the most astonishing things of our easy tolerance of Y toreign , Raders is the manner in which we help to enrich American shipowners by exempting them from the operations of our own marine laws, while British ships on the United totrade oaSt S ° hampered tllat £t is almost impossible for them

Practically the whole of the U.S., merchant marine is fosmed by subsidy from the U.S. Government, while British lines must run on their own or go under. One subsidised line operates regularly from the Pacific Slope to New Zealand and is free to ■ rade between port and port in the Dominion, unrestricted by the IITrAY a !'v a PP. lled I t ° our own shipping. Its ships come'here laden below the Plimsoll mark and carrying deck cargoes which we do not allow our own ships to carry—cargoes of timber piled high to the bridge—and they are permitted to load here for Australian ports, while no British ship Lorn New Zealand to HonMulu? 1SC ° W ° Uld be allowed t 0 P ick U P one oun ce of cargo at

Several ships, manned by New Zealand and Australian seamen could be run profitably carrying the cargo “grabbed” by these American vessels, and so keep in this country and in the Commonwealth large sums that now go to the United States as ii eight money. The British people are wisely tolerant in many tungs, but m this case their tolerance is overdone—and grossly imposed upon. J