MOTHERLAND AND COMMONWEALTH.
AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING
LEGISLATION
WHAT BRITAIN EXPECTS
Received February 16, 5.23 p.m. LONDON, February 15
Speaking at a dinner in connection with the Chamber of Shipping, Sir William Robson, the new AttorneyGeneral, referred to a passage in the annual report of the Chamber referring to the Commonwealth shipping legislation, and emphasised the statement that the Motherland cheerfully bore the whole burdne of the Navy without which the vast coast line of Australia wouid be unable to preserve immunity from foreign attacks for twelve months. The Motherland should at least expect the right to trade without practically prohibitive restrictions along a coast it had to guard. (Cheers). The statesmen of Australia should be courteously but clearly informed that this leigslation would not pass unnoticed, and would not fail, if persisted in, to produce an effect on public opinion in Britain which Australian statesmen would do well to ponder over.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9057, 17 February 1908, Page 5
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150MOTHERLAND AND COMMONWEALTH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9057, 17 February 1908, Page 5
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