SUBSIDISED SHIPS
Australian and New Zealand Trade APATHETIC BRITAIN By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received November 7, 7 p.m.) London, November 7. Speaking at Galashiels, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, chairman and managing director of the P. and 0. S team Navigation Company and British India Steam Navigation Company, referred to the plight of British shipping through foreign, subsidies. He instanced the trade between Australia and New Zealand, which had been established by British Empire shipping, and was now facing continuous loss through uneconomic competition by the highly subsidised vessels of a country which refused to allow British ships to carry goods and passengers between her ports, bur attacked the purely domestic trade of Australia and New Zealand mainly because we were sb apathetic. AV e had left a notice hanging over the Empire trade routes to say: “Please pick my pockets and kick me downstairs ” He hoped shortly to make concrete suggestions to save British shipping from foreign competition.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 38, 8 November 1933, Page 9
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