AIDS TO SHIPPING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 5

AIDS TO SHIPPING.

INTEREST OF GOVERNMENT. SUBSIDISED FOREIGN VESSELS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. A reference to the provision of radio beacons as an aid to shipping was made by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Maemllian, in uroposing the toast of "The Merchant Service" at the annual dinner of the New Zealand Company of Master Mariners in Wellington on Saturday night. Certain technical difliculties, he said, hud arisen, but the I Government was keeping in touch witli the matter and hoped shortly to have ! a, full report from a responsible ofliccr | in respect to the latest developments. Meanwhile an experimental radio beacon j was being installed on Tiritiri Island I in the Ilauraki Gulf and would be in I operation very shortly. Arrangements were also being made for radio signals 1 for navigational purposes to be transj mittcd from Stephen Island and Porti land Island.

deferring to the problem of tlic competition of subsidised foreign ships the Minister said British Blii was working 011 its earnings and lie felt that this poliev would ultimately carry the day against subsidies. Signs were not wanting that the policy of ttclfsufficiency among the nations was being broken down. The Imperial Government was fully alive to the situation and one section of the Empire could not take single-handed action. Meanwhile th"re was a distinct improvement in the Dominion's overseas trade, and cargoes I to this country were increasing.