SHIPPING PROBLEM

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1936, Page 9

SHIPPING PROBLEM

DOMINIONS’ DIFFICULTIES. BRITAIN’S CAUTIOUS POLICY. DANGER IN SUBSIDIES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 8, 12.0 noon. LONDON, April 7. The Australian Ministers, Dr Earle Page and Hon. R. G. Mcnzies, met Mr W. Runciman (President of the Board of Trade), Mr Malcolm MacDonald (Dominion Secretary) and the Canadian and New Zealand High Commissioners, with their respective exports, and agreed upon the basis of discussion concerning the Pacific shipping situation when they meet again after Easter in order to obviate, each country putting forward separate plans. i The Associated Press understands that the inaugural consultations revealed that the British Government were likely to be the most formidable obstacle to an agreement to maintain services with inter-governmental aid. Mr Runciman’s non-committal attitude is dictated by fear that either a counter-subsidy or Abe reservation of certain routes to British shipping will produce American retaliation in the Pacific or elsewhere. This, with the addition of Mr Runciman’s and the Government, reluctance to. broaden the principles of subsidies, means that no solution is yet apparent.