MENACE TO BRITISH SHIPS

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 24 May 1932, Page 5

MENACE TO BRITISH SHIPS

LOW FOREIGN RATES. AID OF STATE SUBSIDIES. Prv*H Association —W Electric leiegraph Oipyrigtn..) LONDON, May 22. Mr. Edmund Watts, addressing the annual meeting of the Britain Steamship Company, declared that British caroo vessels were being wiped out oraduallv by the low freights of foreign ships, whose low running costs were supplemented by State subsidies. Italians, were among the worst ofoil dors The sooner that Britain began to protect her shipping the sooner 40,000 ■seamen and 100,000 deck workers would be off the dole. ~ One commentator remarked that it would be interesting to ascertain the percentage of foreign hulls carrying Australian wheat. , , C. C. Dacre, former New Zealand representative cricketer and Gloucestei professional, in a letter to a friend m Auckland, says that he has definitely decided to return to the Dominion at the end of the present season in England Dacre states that he will be leaving for New Zealand on September 7 amf will arrive early in October. The North Shore Club’s supporters will delighted to learn (says the “Auckland Herald”) that Dacre also expressed the desire to play for Ins old club I during the coming season in Auckland.