AN ARGENTINE PROPOSAL.
I Says the "Look-out Man" in Fairj play: "I see by the Argentine papers that efforts are to be made to create an Argentine oversea mercantile marine. Mr Pablo A. Luison is apparently shocked that so very few oceangoing steamers fly the Argentine flag, and he purposes to build about a dozen passenger steamers of about 12,(XX) ton's dead weight each, to be fitted with refrigerating machinery. He offers to provide the vessels without any subsidy and to carry ten Argentine seamen or engineers on each steamer to train them for the Argentine navy. The only condition he lays down is that his vessels shall have a reduction of 20 per cent in poii- charges. The vessels are, according to the promoter, to carry passengers, emigrants, refrigerated produce, and coal and other cargoes, and, in addition to other attractions, the third-class passengers are to be regaled every evening with cinematograph pictures.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 April 1913, Page 4
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154AN ARGENTINE PROPOSAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 30 April 1913, Page 4
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