SISTER SHIP TO 534.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 208, 3 September 1934, Page 7

SISTER SHIP TO 534.

Keel of Larger Vessel May be Laid Soon. BID FOR ATLANTIC TRADE. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 2. The keel of the sister ship to the No: 534, the giant Cunardcr, will probably be laid before Christmas. It will be longer than tho 534 and indisputably tho world's biggest vessel. The Cunard Co. intended at first that the 534 should participate in a two-vessel service, alternating with the French giant Normandie, but it is not likely they will permanently allow France to share the cream of the Atlantic trade.

TRADE INCREASE. SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 2. Following reports that shipbuilding on the Tyno shows a 400 per cent improvement over 1933 come statistics of the Clyde shipyards.' These "reveal that the August output—ll vessels of 33,211 tons —was the highest for any month since October, 1030. The trade output for the first eight months of 1934 is 30 vessels of 07,780 tons. Already this exceeds tho 1933 total by 12,000 tons. The new 73,000-ton Cunard liner also is under construction and in each month since August last year more tonnage has been ordered than has been launched. At Gjpvan, where last year construction was at a standstill, 5000 men arc working now, and the improvement is general throughout the district. TONNAGE RESTRICTION. NOT WANTED BY U.S. NEW YORK, September 2. Tho Washington correspondent of the "New York American" states that Administration leaders gave a frigid reception to Britain's proposals for a world agreement on a reduction of merchant marine, tonnage. Although the State Department merely admitted that it had received such a suggestion from the British Foreign Secretary high officials intimated that there is little prospect of the United States agreeing, to any restrictions. They believe America would be the loser by any possible plan of limitation as her flotilla is dangerously inadequate, whereas Britain's is far larger than she needs. Thus, any horizontal, or proportional cut in tonnage would be detrimental to America.