STATE SHIPPING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 May 1922, Page 8

STATE SHIPPING.

UNFAIR. COMPETITION

3% CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGHT (Reuter.) (Received May 1, 9.50 a.m.) Ti i- /■• LONDON, April 29. lie chief item on the agenda paper •o, die International Shipping Conferee to he held m London in October, *.iii dpai-with grievances as regards the of State-owned shipping from aabihty for taxation. The Chamber of pupping, winch supports the views of sne committee of the Maritime International, declares that private shipowngraTelT PreJudiced' especially »nen the vessels or cargoes are employed lor ordinary commercial purposes i-c points out that the sovereign of the «ate cannot be ' S ned for Collision! damage salvage, or towage rendered "^J OO f f*Y?ry, while an eve? i?i ° shi PPmS an<i the prost e"l Ol f^o^seas trade is the immunity of State-owned ships from in°f ffle *« in their own country and the daun for.immnnity from taxation in every other country: also immunity nop the safety regulations relating to cargo, passengers and crew. It is pro--.«ed that an international conv^ntiot «o tramed placing Stat^-owned mari- ■?™ in l npf ny. °" P^cisely the same private-owned shipping ]