BRITISH SHIPPING
MR OLIVER STANLEY’S BELIEF
ASSURANCE OF SUPPORT FROM EMPIRE. GATHERING ON DOMINION MONARCH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON. February 10. "I am sure the Government will not look in vain for support from the Dominions to safeguard British shipping." declared Mr. Oliver Stanley. President of the Board of Trade, at a lunch aboard the Shaw, Savill’s new Dom'nion Monarch, to mark the vessel's entry into the British,AustralianNew Zealand service. He added that the Government was fully alive to the menace of foreign subsidies and was investigating the shipping industry’s proposed safeguards concerning the mattei'.
Replying to Lord Essendon’s comments on the harmful methods of foreign subsidies, Mr Stanley said the Mercantile TVfarine was an indispensable adjunct to Empire'defence, since British ships in 1937 carried 92 per cent of British imports and 99 per cent of exports from the Empire. The Dominion Monarch picks up at Cape Town three hundred South Africans for a round voyage to Australia and New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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166BRITISH SHIPPING Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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