SUBSIDISED SHIPPING COMPETITION.
TO TUB BDITOB OP TIUS PRESS. Sir,—Mr J. H. Robinson, in a letter in The Press of August 4th, says: "The average traveller is not concerned as to where the dividends go, as long as he gets value and service, etc." It is not a question of where the rather imaginary dividends go to, but of whom the wages go to. Mr Robinson would do doubt calmly see hundreds of New Zealand seamen and others who depend on shipping for a livelihood thrown out of work, and an expenditure which has been stated to be in the neighbourhood of £SO0 t OOO a year lost to the Dominion, without the slightest help from him to save the situation. In fact, it seems he would rather help the other side. There are no doubt some who do not enre whether they are giving a job to their own fellow citizens or to a foreigner; but surely they are few.—Yours, etc., SHELLBACK. August Bth, 1932.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 9 August 1932, Page 15
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