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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1916, Page 3

THE SHIPMENT, CLEARANCE AND DELIVERY OF GOODS Is work we are thoroughly skilled in. By utilising our services for clearing goods and conveying them to your store, or undertaking the shipment or despatch of your merchandise, you get the benefit of our knowledge and organisation, and save yourself unnecessary trouble. The New Zealand Express Co., Ltd. In spite of the war the deliveries of Dutch shipbuilding yards for German account during 1015 were very considerable (slates an exchange). Taking the year as a whole the Dutch yards were busier than the German shipbuilders themselves, owing to the fact that the latter were so largely employed on war orders that they had little leisure for commercial building, whereas the Dutch shipbuilders were able to build more cheaply and guarantee prompt delivery. Moreover, the shortage of labor from which the German yards suffered did not affect the Dutch builders. In the last few months of the year there was a change in the situation, the shipbuilders in Holland being so fully provided with work., and prices having risen to such an extent, that the Germans found it cheaper to construct the smaller classes of steamers at home. Most of the vessels built in Holland fn- German account were tugs. ] power rpo and lighters, for u=c on Rlti.no. ii"d the v.grj'rj'jtnr;' \