SHIPPING INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1941, Page 4

SHIPPING INDUSTRY

MORE EFFICIENT ORGANISATION DEMANDED. ALLEGATIONS OF RED TAPE DELAYS. < By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i LONDON, February 26. In furtherance of a campaign for mure efficient organisation of the shipbuilding industry, the "Daily Mail.” in a leading article, quotes a complaint by the Chamber of Shipping that bureaucracy has a stranglehold over the Mercantile Marine. Il adds that when shipmaiitcrs reach port they are plagued by a horde of officials from various departments; their time is wasted in interviewing and filling iti forms and their vessels are delayed by the leisurely processes of the Civil Service "We must appoint a Minister of Shipping with a place in the War Cabinet—a man who knows shipping and who has the ruthless drive that is required gingering up the whole orgamMit:.ti'.e newspaper says. "He would immediately end such scandalmis incidents ns that on the Clydeside when 500 shipyard workers were locked out for half a day bveniise they arrived on 'he job two minutes late"

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