The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925. THE SHIPPING HOLD-UP AND THE ELECTIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 10141, 29 October 1925, Page 4

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED DAILY. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925. THE SHIPPING HOLD-UP AND THE ELECTIONS.

... The shipping hold-up, *jj. ’ affects Australia, Hj> * - broken. In ' ‘he Alliance of .Labor .now claims; to n unexpected SH What is" however,, held there* will be a recrudescence of the hold-uo on a more intensive s The 'Government unquestionably well in the meantime to get aw. y quite anumber °f JmpoiU on whether or not the electors et in + i, P fbates Government with a as-is so strongly hoped by al son _ wishers of this Domanon, a rMso able margin of vot ng to work upon, there can be no q w that lie will take further steps, if it should be found necessaiy^ nr» Thel-'c Title he w 11 even go to the length ol pe they may.,bo in a position to ca ry as? stances- tbe atmke £ ST,'e efeat oUcl> »n untoward polit,cal happening, Pari ament wodd re mere to be convened by the m.aa Januarv. But, in the interim idvoento of the wretched doctnnc that an industrial agreement is a mere “scrap of paper- could if Jwy SO wished, agam prove very busy amongst the discontented, seamen, is erroneously held m ® p quarters that the shipowners have been the only real i sufferers; as a sequel to the heavy delays that ha. taken place in connection with the sailings of so many Home liner.-, But St not so. Recently -•e rArred to the true posit on in that ie a r Hero is what the president ot tne S Employers’ Association now says in support of what ne stated.

“The regularity of slipping aimed at l.v the Meat and Dairy Produce Boards is now impossible for th's season Our early lamb trade will lie seriously affected, om loca wool sales will be sluggish owing to lack of slipping space, stoi age charges on all produce v> i.l be in creased, and dairy produce, owing to the do lav. w 11 he thrown upon the London market at a time when supplies from the Continent m tl ear’v northern spring will be m competition. Unless the northern hemisphere exper ences a bad spring it can be safely s.-id that before our present season is over the shipping str ke will have cost the farmers alone some hundreds of thousands of pounds, the i venue of the country will he lessened, and the normal increase of savings checked.”

What remains to be sad is this, if the producers, the bus r.-css poop e and the tradespeople real that their interests have already been a footed, and stand true to the need for the continuance >n office or a strong government at the present critical juncture, the weak-kneed Nationalists. as well as the Holland partv will suffer defeat comparable only with the rout inflicted on the old Conservat ve party on the occasion of the elections that fol.ov ed the historic voucher incident m Richard. John Sedclon’s day.