SHIPBUILDING SLUMP.
THE DROP TN ENGLAND. HEAVY DECLINE IN AMERICA (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 11. Lloyd's register of the quarterly riiipVuilding returns states that deduct'"? 617,000 tons, on which work has been suspended for sonic time, the tonnajrr actually under construction in the United Kingdom is 1,610,000, ■α-hich is 271,000 hclow the average of the twc»»c months immediately preceding the war. The tonnapp building abroad was 373,000 below December, 1021. The chief decrease T*as in the United States, where the tonnage, building was only HJ per cent of the total for March, 101*0.— (A. and N.Z: Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1922, Page 5
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