SHIPPING CONTROL TO BE VOLUNTARY IN AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, August 11
A voluntary control committee will operate all Australian shipping when Government control ends on August .18. This announcement was made last night by the Minister of Supply and Shipping (Senator W. P. Ashley). Next week ships will-be handed back to their private owners, but the new control machinery will carry on in virtually Ihe same way as under the National Security Regulations except that it will- have no legislative basis. The Government and private shipowners will'have equal- represehta--1 ion on. the control- committee. Tiie Director of Shipping (Mr R. A. Hetherington) said- that the Government would- build- up its own fleet, which at present consisted of 13 9000-ton freighters, one of 6000 tons and eight of 2500 tons. Nine more ships had been ordered or Were under construction. The Commonwealth, also owned the war prize Reynella, of 12,000 tons, the former German ship Empire Conifer, of 1500 tons, allotted as part if war reparations, and the Corrimal. of 1800 tons.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1947, Page 8
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