INSTANT ACTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 149, 25 June 1936, Page 7

INSTANT ACTION.

RESCUE OF SHIPPING. Tragedy of Breach of All-Red Route. WIDER EMPIRE ASPECT. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 24. Pleading for instant action in the Pacific shipping problem, Viscount Elibank, at a lunch of the Federation of Empire Chambers of Commerce, said it would be a tragedy if the AllRed route were broken. Immediate action Avas necessary. Heavily subsidised American ships Avere steadily acquiring the traffic. Mr. Malcolm Mac Donald, Dominions Secretary, said Britain must realise that the only Avay the Dominions could support increased population Avas to deA-elop secondary industries. The authority of the Empire on Avorld affairs depended on a steady turning of the comparatively under-developed and underpopulated Dominions into fully developed, Avell-populated, strong and prosperous nations. Then there would be at the head of the Empire not a single, strong, Avealthy nation but strong fully-developed nations co-operating closely on the causes for which the Empire stands. Dr. Earle Page, Australian Minister, and Sir Edward Beatty, chairman of the Canadian Pacific Company, exchanged views on Pacific shipping. Dr. Earle Page told the Australian Associated Press: I will aAvait the arrival of the Canadian Finance Minister, Mr. Dunning, who leaves for London on Friday. It is expected the International Shipping Committee report will be available in July when a conference of interested (Joverninents will be called to consider subsequent action. The Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand passed a resolution viewing with grave concern the possibilities of the near future in regard to shipping, and urged the Government to do all in its power to retain British shipping in the Pacific.