SHIPBUILDING AT HOME.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 285, 17 November 1916, Page 6

S HIPBUILDIN G AT HOM E .

PROGRESS NECESSARILY SLOW. Dunedin, Nov. 17. Sir James Mills, interviewed today, said .the authorities in the Old Country- were now giving limited permission for building merchant vessels. The Admiraltv work claims first attention in nearly all the big yards, but vessels whose keels were laid down before the war were being permitted to be gone on with, providing they are necessary for the backbone lines of the Empire’s trade, and the carrying of meat and grain, etc. The Union Co. has two such vessels on the stocks, both for the meat-wrade, to be run in connection with the Federal Line. Progress on them is necessarily- slow, but he considered it satisfactory* that any progress at all is being made. The Hon. G. W. Russell, asked whether Government would take action under the new war regulations regarding the peace societies, and their manifestos, said the Act will be carried out in its entirety.