ANCIENT LAW AND MODERN ANOMALY
Cablegrams published' yesterday show that "the City Editor of "The Times" has joined the chorus of questioners who wish to know why it is good that subsidised United States steamers should trade between New Zealand and Australia, if it is bad (and in fact'not allowed) that British shipping should trade between the United States and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). That question—a question of elementary fairness—is not answered by the [Australian Minister of Commerce when he declares (as reported in the "Sydney Morning Herald," to hand by mail) that New Zealand's legislative power to seize a steamer in certain circumstances is founded on an English maritime law of 1389. The Minister (Mr. Stewart) says he "can visualise a first-class international squabble if New Zealand seized the Mariposa for failure, to conform to a New Zealand regulation." But can he visualise any explanation-■ of why the peace of the world requires that the United States shall shut foreign ships out of its own trade while running its subsidised ships in the trade of two British Dominions and ■ one British Crown Colony? Is this "anomaly unalterable without war; or have the two Governments of New Zealand and Australia certain other political obstacles, joint and several, to surmount;, and, if so, what are they?,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1933, Page 12
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215ANCIENT LAW AND MODERN ANOMALY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1933, Page 12
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