BELATED TRIP

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1936, Page 20

BELATED TRIP

BRITISH ENGINEER

INTEREST IN SHIPPING

After having made arrangements to come to New Zealand thirty-six years ago, Mr. Alexander Storrar, a director of John G. Kiiicaid and Co., Ltd., marine engineers, Greenock, Scotland, arrived at Wellington by the Wanganella today to visit his brother, who came to the Dominion about thirty years ago and resides at Christchurch. Mr. Storrar said that after changing his mind about coming to the country at the beginning of the century, he had resolved to pay a visit some time but had never been able to do so previously. Naturally, 'said Mr. Storrar, he was keenly interested in British shipping and had travelled British to Canada, and again across the Pacific to Australia. He had mixed business with his holiday in Australia, but intended to have a rest in New Zealand. His firm manufactured Diesel engines from 300 horse-power to any size desired. Ship building on the Clyde had improved very considerably without reaching the 1928 level, but was holding its own. The trade was very short of skilled artisans, partly because they had been attracted to the aircraft factories, and partly because fewer apprentices had been trained during the depression period. However, the shipping industry would welcome more orders, and any action taken by New Zealand and Australia to, protect British shipping interests in the Pacific would be welcomed on Clydebank. Personally, he believed the Canadian Pacific Railway would extend its interests into Pacific shipping circles, and if it did so its.powerful ramifications would lead to a better state of affairs.