The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1906. THE SHIPPING COMBINE.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 155, 30 January 1906, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1906. THE SHIPPING COMBINE.

The remarks made by the Premier Mr Beddon, on the subject of tbe shipping monopoly in New Zealand appear to have made a strong impression. The Auckland Star says that rather than see the Colony at tho mercy of a shipping ring, the Premier is ready to advocate the establishment of a Government line of steamers to carry our produce Home, and thus to beat the shipping ring at its own game. The country has now so completely identified itself with progressive Liberalism that very few people would be found to demur to such a solution of one of our most important commercial problems. Tbe existence of trusts and combines is a standing menace to the industrial prosperity of all countries in which they operate, and the Liberals of this Colony will never submit to be exploited without a struggle, for the benefit of any monopolists, local or foreign. The Premier's words should come as a timely warning to the mercantile corporations which control our trade, for unless Mr Beddon and his colleagues can secure fair treatment for our farmers and producers from the shipping that trade here, they will certainly not hesitate to attempt the work of ocean transport for themselves.