PACIFIC SHIPPING.
DEMAND FOR MORE TONNAGE. BONUS SYSTEM TALKED OF. BIG BUILDING SCHEMES. (Received 5.35 a.m.) VANCOUVER, January 23. It is considered reasonably certain that the present shortage of shipping tonnage in the Pacific will not be of long duration. It is believed that the tirac is ripe for some form of official encouragement. Shipowners and other powerful interests are contemplating the construction of a large fleet, and are only awaiting an opportune moment to make a demand for large bonuses, in view of the obvious fact that it will be necessary to construct quickly a number of ships that will necessarily be of obsolete types and useless after the war. It is officially denied that the Government contemplates giving bonuses to Canadian shipowners, to the exclusion of American bottoms. Guarantees are being asked that large-capacity "windjammers," preferably with auxiliary power, shall be substantially and immediately built, and that these shall receive the utmost preference if Canadian-owned. Such preference will probably take the form of the remission of harbour dues.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1916, Page 6
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