BRITISH SHIPPING

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 March 1944, Page 8

BRITISH SHIPPING

PLANS APTER WAR

LONDON, December 30. Mr. Philip Runciman, Chairman of lhe General Council of British Shipping, in an article in Lloyd’s Annual Review, declares that the British mercantile marine after the war must be maintained in “adequate strength and in a position of full efficiency.”

. Its direction, he says, must be left in the hands of those who know how to conduct it—not paralysed by State control.

i, n® 111 ’ American friends have been telling the world what they intend to.do when the war is over to maintain the merchant fleets they have bruit up during the war/’ he states. If we have not discussed our case so clamantly, it is because perhaps Ave have taken it for granted that our friends and Allies must know that however desirable a strong merchant navy may be for them, for Great Britain it is a vital necessity. Without it we are ‘sunk.’ British shipowners hate the idea °t a subsidy, because with a subsidy must go control, and they equally {pre control. All they demand of ■‘P G° vern ’ment is support against uniair competition and discriminatory measures.”

SIR. N PEARSON NEW YORK, December 11. Sir Neville Pearson; the publisher, who arrived here from a tour of Australia and New Zealand for the Ministry of Information a few days ago was married here to-day to Mrs Anne Davis Elebash, of New' York, ft was the bride’s third marriage, her two previous ones having been ended by divorce.

She has a daughter by her first husband, the late Chester Warren Spaulding. Sir Neville had also been married twice, his second wife having been Miss Gladys Cooper.

MOTOR SALES. CANBERRA, February If). Advertisers of motor vehicles for sale must in future find, out the maximum price allowed for the type and include it in the advertisement. An order issued to-day by the Prices Commissioner, Professor Copland, directs that any person who advertises a motor vehicle for sale shall include in the advertisement the following particulars:—(l) Name and address of advertiser; (2) the year, model, make, and type of motor vehicle; (3) the maximum price (if any) fixed under the Na-

tional Security (Prices) Regulations for the sale of the motor vehicle; (4) the price he intends to accept for the motor vehicle.