SUBSIDY FOR SHIPS.
Japanese Plan to Encourage Foreign Trade. INCREASED TONNAGE. (Received 10 a.m.) TOKYO, February 4. Japanese shipping will receive a special subsidy of £900,000 a year from the Ministry of Communications as part of an effort to increase the merchant tonnage to 6,000,000 in five years. The money will be devoted chiefly to freighters. Leading business men are urging 1 that the Government regulate trade with South Africa and Argentina, pointing out that owuig to extensive wodl purchases it is becoming one-sided. They direct attention to the fact that South Africa and Argentina are imposing restrictive measures against Japanese goods.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 7
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