NEW VESSELS.
BRITISH ACTIVITY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Jan. 16. The quarterly return of Lloyds Register issued to-day shows that the construction of British merchant shipping was 80 per cent, greater at the end of December than a year previously. The British total of new shipping in hand (596,834 tons) represents 47.7 per cent, of the world’s total and exceeds the aggregate output of seven leading countries abroad. The tonnage now building abroad (654,888 tons) is about 52,000 tons less than the total for the preceding quarter, but is 229,000 tons above the figure of a year ago. In British yards, 93,428 tons were laid down during the last three months, showing an increase of 16,517 tons over the September quarter. In the same period 109,469 tons were begun abroad.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 7
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