SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25428, 26 February 1948, Page 7

SHIPBUILDING IN BRITAIN

1947 LAUNCHINGS NEAR RECORD (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, February 25. i nA Ent^ lsh shi Py 3r ds in 1947 launched 1.202,000 tons of shipping—which has been exceeded only once before, m 1942, when Britain launched 1,284,000 tons,” says Lloyd’s Register. “The 1947 total represented 56.9 per cent, of the world’s outptit for the year. Overseas owners received 31.6 per cent, of the tonnage launched by Britain, which is the highest proportion since 1930. when they had 44 per cent, of Britain’s output.” ALL-PARTY “ COUNCIL OF STATE” ARCHBISHOP OF YORK’S SUGGESTION (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb.. 25. Advocating the setting ,up of an allparty Council of State as an economic measure, the Archbishop of York (Dr Cyril Garbett) said in the House of Lords last night that there was a large number of experienced men who did not belong to the present Government and whose advice might well be asked in the present situation. He said he was not for a moment urging that there should be a Coalition Government, but there should be something like a Council of State in which members of all parties, without abandoning their party allegiance, might be. drawn into conference to make their special contribution.