BRITISH SHIPPING
A BIG COMBINATION. OWNS VAST TONNAGE. GREATER THAN OTHER NATIONS. nV OAHI.H-PHJSBB ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT Received 10.45 a.m. to-day. LONDON. March 12. Out of a thousand odd shipping companies in Britain, says “Fairplay s” Year Book 73 are included in six ELerman, Cimard, Holts and Furnesshlleiman. Canard, Hots and Furness. Their capital is £113,000,000 and they own 8.116.000 tons, which is 42 per cent, of the Empire’s tonnage and exceeds the 'entire merchant fleet of any other nation except that of the United States. —“Sydney Sun” cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 March 1928, Page 5
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