GERMAN AUSTRALIAN TRADE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 3, 28 January 1909, Page 2

GERMAN AUSTRALIAN TRADE

SUBSIDISING A GERMAN STEAMER LINK BRITISH AND JAPANESE COMPETITION. AUSTRALIA'S POLICY DENOUNCED. I Received January 2", 11.45 p.m. I Berlin, January 27. After llerr Hethinnnn-llolhveg, iliui--ter fur the Interior, ami lli'rr Dcrnburg, Minister for the Colonics, hail spoken, the Government Hill snf«-inliaiiij»' ■llii! Ninth (lorniiia Lloyd Company's South Son services was referred to a committee. Most parties supported 111' - I subsidy, owing to the British ami Japanese competition. Heir Jliilin, a member of me Conservative Party, remurkeil tliat without wishing to say a word against Hritain. it was natural Australians should not view German development with satisfaction, and if the Herman line were discontinued, the cause would certainly emanate from Australia.

Heii- lliirinaiiii. a liailical and a mem-1 Irer of the peo]ile's party, declared that Hcriiiany was, comparatively, in a favourable position in regard to Australia, which, in Herman opinion, was following ipiite an erroneous and narrowminded immigration policy, aiming to exdude the competition of foreign labourers, without wliom the development of Australia was iinpo.-,sM>]e. That was a twofold reason why Hermans should seize, anv opportunity of extracting what advantage they could from the situation, l Hcrr Semlcv. a National l.iherai. supported the bill on the ground of the inlluence exercised by UrilNli fri'igld charges in respfect of the Herman <-opra trade.