SHIPPING PROBLEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 167, 14 June 1928, Page 7

SHIPPING PROBLEMS.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(Australian Press Association.) LONDON, June/12,

The fourth International Shipping Conference has opened. There arc tuu delegates representing Britain, Europe, America. Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Sir* Charles Holdsworth of the Union Steam Ship Company, ie representing New Zealand. Sir "William Seager, in his presidential address, said that while he was unable to offer congratulations of prosperity, lie thought, nevertheless, that tho industry was holding its own. They had no desire to eliminate competition, provided that it was fair and consistent with international comradeship and community interests. The conference adopted a resolution embodying proposals emanating from the World Economic Conference at Geneva, and the International Chamber of Commerce Conference at Stockholm in 1927, which advocated the reduction of excessive tariffk and protested against their operating to the detriment of agriculture, the products of which formed the basis of the world’s trade. Herr Stimming, general director of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, pointed outthat Germany was faced with a crisis in agriculture, and would welcome tariff reductions. Sir Alan Anderson, summing up, denied that the shipowners were not necessarily either Free Traders or Protectionists, although they might he either, according to the interests of their respective countries. What they did believe in was not tariff barriers but regulation, hence the shipowners had combined under tho name of tho conference whereby unfair competition would he restricted within certain spheres. Sir Alan. Anderson advocated the adoption of a similar policy, by tho great trades of the various nations.

“PORT” AND “STARBOARD.”

WORDS TO BE SUBSTITUTED,

("Australian Press Association.) Received June 14, 11.30 a.m. LONDON, June 13. The International Shipping Conference approved the collisions committee s recommendation that the words port and “starboard” should no longer he used in order to indicate a turn, the words “left” and- “right” respectively being substituted.