UNITED STATES.
GREAT SHIPPING STRIDES. HALF WORLD'S TONNAGE NEXT YEAR. Received April 8, 8.20 p.m New York, March 27. • Mr. Hurley, Minister for the Navy, in a speech said that for the past 18 months the Shipping Board had constructed 3,640,406 dead-weight tons of shipping. The United States in 1920 would have 16,732,700 tons of oceangoing steel ships, of which the Government would own 70 per cent. The United States shipping in 1020 would be equivalent to almost half the world's merchant tonnage. "I advocate that the Government-owned ships be sold and operated by Ameriim citizens under no restrictions other than fixing the maximum freight rates."—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1919, Page 5
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109UNITED STATES. Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1919, Page 5
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