BRITISH SHIPPING
Building on the Clyde Improving SHORTAGE OF SKILLED MEN “Clydebank will welcome any action taken to protect British shipping, and to encourage shipbuilding,” said Mr. Alexander Storrar, a director of Messrs. John G. Kincaid and Co., Ltd., marine engineers, of Greenock, at “the tail o’ the bank.” Mr. Storrar, who arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Wanganella, stated that shipbuilding on the Clyde was steadily improving, but was not yet back to the 1928 level. It was holding its own, however. At present, said Mr. Storrar, there was a great shortage of skilled artisans in the shipbuilding and kindred trades. The depression had led to a cessation of apprenticeship and training in skilled trades, and many of the able men had been attracted into the aircraft-manufacturing industry, where there was much activity. Speaking of the Pacific shipping problem, Mr. Storrar said that it was generally believed at Home that the Canadian Pacific would probably enter the running. His own feelings about British shipping were so strong that he had taken care to travel by British routes all the way to New* Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 47, 19 November 1936, Page 11
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