LATE SHIPPING

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 130, 2 June 1921, Page 8

LATE SHIPPING

ARRIVALS. June 2— Port Caroline, 8.8. (12.46 p.m.), 8262 tons, Hood, from Napier. DEPARTURES ,-., . June 2—Kapuni, s.s. (11.15 a.m.), 188 tons, Gibson, for Fatea . June 2—Waitangi, s.s. (11i55 a.m.), 171 tons, Flsk, for Paten : June 2—Kapiji.s.s. (1 p.m.), 242 tone, Sawyers, for Wanganui .June; 2—Arahura, s.s. (2 p.m.), 1696 toni, Sewell,' for Napier MOERAKI'S PASSENGERS. The Moeraki is to leave Wellington this afternoon for Sydney direct. She hud the following passengers on ■ board:—Saloon-^ Misses Hume, Patrick, Size, McLennan (2), Hughes, Casey, Westenra, Massey, Haruer Hell, L. Aulds, Day, Donds, Bain, Sisters Matthews, Glynes, Mesdames M. O'Connor, i. O'Connor, Oxenham, Hume, McDonald, Jfeynell, Cutt's, Adams, Jobson, Lipson, Black and child, Wilson, Triggs, Kennedy, Bailder and child, Wilson, King, Davis, Shalafa, Sprott. Andrews, Savage, Dyer and boy, Stoddart, McGuire and infant, Webster, Alessrs Morton Ollivier, Cooper, Worsley, Bedwell, Harvie' Sidey, Oaltden Mason, Duncan, Colleston Falconer, Ogle, Allan, Perry, Marble, Abelson, Cohen, Gray, Campbell, Black, Watkins, Cooks Barron, O'Connor, Howes/ Perry, F. O'Connom Oxenliam, McDonald,, Gibsoa, McLennan, JJalfour,\. Coutts, Adams1, Jobson, Lipson, Black Hon. Triggs, Garrett, Shalald, Murphy, Post, Filmer, Hodgetts (2), Cook, Sprott, Corkill, Savage,,. Parkes, Anderson, ,Fiaher, Day Collerige, Munro, Reardon, Brown, Filmer, Po»ef, Tempero, Davles, Dodfield, Stewart, Napier, flutcbinson, Tinney; 120 steerage. . :■'•• ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. ■' The Makura arrived at Vancouver yesterday from Auckland. She is to leave Vancouver on. Saturday, and will -arrive at Auckland on the 24th June. '. The Niagara is due at Auckland on the 13th June from Sydney. She is to sVil from Auckland on the 14th June for Vancouver. The Tahiti left Wellington on Tuesday Mat for San Francisco, where she is due:on the June. • ■ The Marama left San Francisco on the 2«h May for Wellington. She is due here on the Ilth June, and will soil on the 13th June for Sydney. Her next trip to San Francisco will be made from Sydney, via Wellington.' She will sail from here on the 28tfc June. ' ' -=.' \ , PASBENGBRB FOR HOME. }; The Port Darwin arrived at Wellington thi» morning from Napier, and she is to leave her* on Sunday morning for London, via Panama. Tho following passengers have booked passages by the vessel:—Misses Frator (2); Mtsdames Lareen, Fraser, Tidey and son, Mr. Larcen, and Master Larsen. ■ ; . The New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Orari is due at Wellington at daybreak 6a Sunday from London, via Panama. ■•' The Port Victoria was due at Waitara this morning from Melbourne. She willjater proceed to New Plymouth, .Wanganui, an* Wellington. . ■/,■.. '■• The Port Caroline arrived at Wellington this afternoon from Napier. » She is to leave here on Wednesday to complete loading in Amtralia. „ , The Carpentaria is expected to leave Welington on Sunday for Lyttelton. The Faloona, due at Wellington on the 10th June from tylelbonrne, via South Island ports. Is to salt from here on the 11th June for Melbourne. , The Corinnaiwas to leave New Plymouth this' afternoon for' Wellington. She is to sail from here on Saturday for Donedin. ■ • The Kamo is to leave Oraymouth this afternoon for Wellington. She should reach hen to-morrow night. Rain delayed work on the Waimate, loading at New Plymouth yesterday, and as a consequence the vessel Is not expected here before Saturday. She li to laif from Wellington on Wednesday for London, > The Federal liner Armagh left New York on the 28th May y!«i cargo for Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Newcastle, and Brisbane. She is due at Auckfend on the 27th June, and at Wellington on the <th Jnly. The Le'.irim is due at Wellington on Wednesday next from Whakatane and Napier. She la to leave here the following Saturday to complete Homeward loading at Lyttelton. BY TRIEGBAFH. AUCKLAND, 2nd JuM. Sailed-Opiht (7.15. a!.m.), for Lyttelton ; NEWCASTLE, Ist June" Sriled—lnga, for New Zealand : ■\ ■ MELBOURNE, Ist June Arrhed-Okaba, from New Zealsind : 'NELSON, 2nd Juno ArriTed-rMapourika (6.30 a.m.), from Wellington and Picton Sailed—Mapourika (7 ».m.) ( for Picton and Wellington ; .:.

(PUBLISHED BY ABRANGBIIBKT.) ARMOUR AND CO.'S LICENSE. }; I Reprint of (Leading Article from The Su*, Christchurch, 30th May, 1921.. It >s not surprising that the United States Government should inquire, why New Zealand is singling out certain American firms and placing arbitrary restrictions upon them in the conduct of their business. There is nothing to ( prevent any New Zealand capitalist from going to America, and, as long as he complies jwith the laws of the country, being free to engage in any business he pleaseß, and enter into competition with any firm in the United States. The Americans welcome new capital, and like to meet the kind of competitor who can teach them something. Naturally they cannot j understand why New Zealand should seek to boycott an American firm which scrupulously observes the laws of the Dominion and is engaged in,a per-© fectly legitimate business. The Sun has already ■ exposed the humbug, and political dishonesty of, the campaign against Armour and Co., and it regrets to see'that a fair-minded man like Sir Francis Bell should /be placed in the awkward position 6f having to defend tactics, and condone a policy for which some of his wrong-heatted colleagues;and their departmental advisers are responsible. The position; ■ briefly, is' that Armour and Co. are buyers and exporters of meat. Their competition with other exporters ensures that the-farmer gets,a better price for his stock than he would if the Americans were not represented in the Dominion. ' That- fact has been abundantly demonstrated during: the past' year or so, and the farmer who'cannot see it has no more brains than\bne of his own. sheep. Unfortunately,. sundry politicians (including Mr. Magsey) and the head of the Agricultural Department ■ are the victims: of'an 'obsession j that Armour, and Co. desire,,to' capture the whole of the New Zealand meat trade, so that they will have)the-produceiiin their power. It is an' absurd and ridiculous obsession which merely reflects on the intelligence of the men who entertain it. There are so many strong-ly-established New Zealand and English companies engaged in buying, freezing, and exporting New Zealand meat that Armour and Co. have no more chance of/ buying them out and'cornering supplies than of flying to the moon.So far, Armour and Co. have made no effort-to acquire even a pig-sty in NewZealand, let alone a killing and refrigerating plant. Their activities are- • confined to buying and exporting, and, their operations are of the greatest advantage to the farmer, particularly sit a time when prices are down and any competition that will put an extra halfpenny a pound on the expo*rt price of meat is the equivalent of a golden shower on the community.. . . .Mr. Massey thought he'was currying favour with the farmers by posing as the protector of the meat-producer against the Meat Trust, which was alleged to be lurking round the corner waiting the chance to swallow him up. The Prime Minister was induced to take up this attitude in the first place by powerful political friends 'interested in the freezing and export concerns which might reasonably be supposed to , benefit by the absence of Armour and Co.'s competition. If the head of the Agricultural Department had been a little more broad-minded and far-seeing he could, perhaps, have saved Mr. Massey from his friends, and advised against the adoption of a policy which has injured the farmer instead of. .benefiting him, which has made the Domin•ion look ridiculous, and has involved it in an awkward dispnssion with the Foreign Affairs Department of a friendlj nation. '■■'■,-'