NEW ZEALAND'S NEEDS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15087, 2 June 1919, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND'S NEEDS.

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Official.—The shipping position, re-j ejecting JSew Zealand needs is still fairiy aatisiactory, Jtuuiiig regard to ail the urcunistanc-es. xXxx *Massey, while in. Jjiindon duiji.^ tii.. past, uiguii uays, Baw the Controller with a view of mak- j £ng certain everything possiblo is being' done lv get vie .uuuuuion's require- ' wients. Be ascertained that there- are! at least nine, insiuatett snips set clown for sailing from .New Zealand ports, with a chance of more, but the delay! and (tifiiculty owing co strikes and! labui:.- Liuu-.ios ..;-..■ th-.c overcome,' though tiii1 |;i. y.Liosi ■=■• bO!).:»v,-Jiat uti-i pcp.ved. _ Tin'iv has been nuicii con-j ggstion in repair yards, as many1 as 900 merchant ships awaiting fepjur a .siio> t time ago in Britain. In addition there were in two purts no fcutri Liuvn 180 ships idle '■ for want of labour, which may seem' an extraordinary fact in'view of the! •eoriotis uneTnployment in Britain. Ship- i building is proceeciiag satisfactorily in' several yards. I Speaking of unemployment at a'! luncheon, Mr Massev, as tne guest of i the Empire I'roducers' Association, j urged tne necessiiy !'.'■■ development of i tho sliippini/ services between the over-i

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g^as Dominions and Britain. Something had already been done, but more anusu be done t:> explore the possibilities of the movement; towards increasing inter-Empire tr.-ule. It might be necessary to subsidise suitable ships, Kit whatever happened, it was in the «P*rests of the citizens tbi-oughdut the sSmpire that everything possible should ?j§ done to improve our shipping facilities.