SHIPPING PROBLEM

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19886, 15 May 1936, Page 8

SHIPPING PROBLEM

4.30 O’CLOCK EDITION.

CONDITIONS IN THE PACIFIC IMIRIOA'S UNFAIR OOMPITITION. BRITAIN AND HER DOMINIONS. United Press Assn-valet: Tel. copyright. \Beceived May is. 3 pm.) LONDON. May 1&Strong comment on the shipping position in the Pacitlc was made in the House of Commons by Sir 11. Geyser. who urged the Government to give a definite lead to the Dominions and act in concert with them. He added that the United States was wiping out our mercantile marine in the Pacific with its unfair subsidisetion. The Ail-Red route was threatened with severance. It was impossible for private firms to compete with a. Government like the United States. which was willing to spend millions to wrest trade from Britain.- The United Kingdom was the biggest buyer in the world. and there was no reason for not using its purchasing power to secure a fair share or the trade {or British ships. "We are the biggest buyer of Dominion products." he said, " and the Dominions should rely on British ships for marketing their products.“ Major Lloyd George: "Is the Government Satisfied that everything is be—ing done in flaw of the urgency of the problem?" Poeltlon In the Pacific. Mr Barclay Harvey said he “as not, lure whether members of the House of Uomlnons realised the position in the Pacific. Any ship could take cargo from an Australian port to New Zealand, although they were part or the British Empire. It was no Hood expecting comparatively small counItries to stand up and tight the United States. The Pacific routes would be most valuable in wartime.

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