SUBSIDISED SHIPPING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 77, 13 March 1934, Page 5

SUBSIDISED SHIPPING

Britain Will Face Question VISITING M.P.’s COMMENT (By Telegraph I’rett Association.) WELLINGTON, March 13 A definite assurance that Great Bri tain was not going to continue to allow her shipping to be subject to uneconomic subsidised competition from foreign countries was given by Sir John Sandeman Allen, M.P. for Liverpool, in the course of an address delivered at luncheon yesterday to members of the New Zealand Club. “We are determined that we are not going to let it go on,” Sir John said. “Great Britain is determined that she is going to face the question, but the matter is such a delicate one, that it cannot be rushed.” Sir John said that there was an American line subsidised by the United Staes Government trading between Australia and New Zealand, but if one was in San Franciaco and wanted to travel to Honolulu, he could not travel in any but an American line. The New Zealand Government should say to the American Government that it was going to adopt the same principles a* the American Government had adopted, and that it was going to stop the destruction of its national shipping in the way it was being done at preaent There was one thing he did not find in Australia or in New Zealand, and that was the subsidising of an Italian line of shipping by their Government as he found in South Africa. Subsidies were paid by the South African Government to an Italian shipping company when British interests could do the whole thing. In reply to people who said, “They are so nice,” about the subsidised lines, ho would say that they would wake up some day to find that the foreign lines had no more uae for them, and British shipping would then have disappeared.