SHIPPING CONTROL
ACTION IN AUSTRALIA. TASK FOR SIR EARLE PAGE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. Sir Earle Page. Minister of Commerce, announced that the Government had placed him in control of Australian coastal shipping and said certain recent events, such as the sinking of ships in Bass Strait, had caused a great accumulation of cargo with the result tht fie would confer with the Shipowners Fedcrtion in order to decide upon measures to deal with the situation. Vessels under 100 tons would not be affected.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1940, Page 6
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91SHIPPING CONTROL Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1940, Page 6
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