STATE-OWNED STEAMERS
"1> airplay says "ono would imagine that the experience of tho United States, CaniKU. and Australia, riot to mention other countries, in the matter of Stateowned shipping would have been sufficient to make; other Governments 'hesitate boforo they went into the business. This, apparently", is not so, because I hcar_ tha.t the ■ Egyptian Government is considering the'advisability of running a State line of steamers between Egyptian ports and the United Kingdom. Hl3 Excellency Abdel Hamed Pasha, Soliman, the general manager of tho Egyptian State Railways, is at present' in this country, inquiring as to.the cost of building the necessary steamers." Mention*is made of tha purchase, from the Tasmanian Government bjf tfce Union
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 9
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114Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 52, 29 August 1925, Page 9
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