Duty Shirked?
CANADA AND SHIPPING SUBSIDIES United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. OTTAWA, Feb. 19. Declaring that the Dominion Government was shirking great responsibilities for the Empire on the Pacific by opposing shipping subsidies, Mr G. G. McGcer (Vancouver) clashed in the House of Commons with his party. He denounced the cut of 1-19,000 dol lars in the grant for the VancouverCliina service, and said tho Government should realise what was being done by the Mother Country at Singapore and Hong Kong. “Japan has become a leading war Power,’’ Mr R. L. Baker (Conservative, Toronto) interjected. “Therein lies the dauger.” Denouncing the attack as heroics, the Minister of Finance (Mr Charles Dunning) defended the cut as a needed economy. The Minister of Trade and Commerce (Mr W. D. Euler) cited the increase of 100,000 dollars in tho New Zealand service subsidy, which was necessary through American competition in view of Canadian-New Zealand trade. Replying to the demands of several members that only whites should be employed in the ships of the Oriental trade, Mr Euler said that it was impossible as most of the vessels were registered in London.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 43, 21 February 1936, Page 7
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