SHIPPING SURVEY
SPECIAL REPORT. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE Considered To Be In Serious Position. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.40 a.m. London, February 24. With 2000 fewer cargo and passenger vessels than before the outbreak of war, British shipping is in a serious position, is the conclusion of the Chamber of Shipping in its annual report. The Chamber is undertaking a survey to enable the Imperial Conference to determine on some action to defend shipping from foreign discrimination and uneconomic competition. Its report considers that, there is no indication that the foreigners, whose tonnage has increased 4,000,000 last year, contemplate any reduction or intend to abandon the methods by which the position was created.
The Chamber of Shipping’s survey will take the form of a memorandum which will probably be the first to be submitted toi the British Government and then forwarded to the Dominion representatives before their arrival in England, but the High Commissioners may be consulted. Much of the information is confidential, as the Chamber considers that the gravity of the present position cannot be overrated.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 369, 25 February 1937, Page 5
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174SHIPPING SURVEY Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 369, 25 February 1937, Page 5
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