SHIPPING PROBLEMS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 281, 12 November 1934, Page 7

SHIPPING PROBLEMS

World Conference Planned LONDON, November 11. According to a correspondent of the * Financial News,” a world shipping conference will be held in London shortly to work out plans for layingup and possibly restriction of tonnage. The writer says that the Chamber of Shipping has sounded the views of all maritime nations on the prospect of a conference. Although a full report on the views of the United States will not be received until next week the reactions elsewhere have been surprisingly favourable. While there is no chance whatever of complete abolition of subsidies, the chances of some reasonable arrangement for scrapping or laying-up surplus tonnage are said to be very much brighter than they were a few months ago. NEW ORIENT LINER British Official Wireless Service. RUGBY, November 11. The Duke of Gloucester, yvhile attending a concert at Brisbane on December 7, will launch the new Orient liner Orion, now being built at Barrow-in-Furness. By pressing a button an electrical impulse will be sent by land line to Sydney and thence by radio and telephone lines to Barrow, where it will close a, power circuit and release the ship, which will immediately glide into the water. The Grata will be the first ship of the British Mercantile Marine to be launched by wireless telephone. The new liner will be approximately 24,000 tons gross. She contains gastight chambers for the transport of chilled meat from Australia.