STATE SHIPPING
AUSTRALIAN PROPOSALS
INVESTIGATED
(Rec. 2 p.m.) CANBERRA, Aug. 2. The establishment of a Commonwealth shipping line for freight and passengers on the Australian coast and to the Islands is being considered.
A special inter-departmental committee of experts, is investigating and will report to the Federal Government on the possibility and practicability of forming a line, which would be the natural complement to the shipbuilding programme planned for the next lew years. » The complete nationalisation of in-ter-State and island shipping is also being considered but the decision of the High Court in the airline case has cast doubts on the legality of such a proposal. ,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1946, Page 7
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106STATE SHIPPING Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1946, Page 7
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