Subsidised American Shipping

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 74, 28 March 1936, Page 4

Subsidised American Shipping

Unfair Competition in the

Pacific

LOUD BLEDISLOE WANTS SOMETHING DONE

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. Received Friday, 7.-10 p.m. LONDON, March 26.

Lord Blcdisloe, in the House of Lords, drew attention to unfair American subsidised competition in the Pacific aud asked tho Government to deal more firmly with it. The Dominions alone could not stand up against this heavy subsidisation. Lord Templemore replied: “The subject is engaging the Government’s attention. Hon. Alexander Shaw, in a statement to the Times, said he was gratified at the proposed London conference, which had been delayed until the eleventh hour. The losses of the Canadian-Aus-traliau Line in 1931 had reached six figures sterling, and under present conditions, survival was out of the question. The Josses had been continuous and now could not be supported. If it was tho Government’s wish to retain a British service between their territories and not rely on a foreign subsidised service, a prompt decision was essential. CONFERENCE TO BE HELD. ' v NEW ZEALAND’S REPRESENTATION. LONDON, March 26. Tho Australian Ministers, Mr Mcnzics, Dr. Earl Page and Hon. Stanley Bruce, met Hon. Walter Runciman. Hou. Malcolm MacDonald, Lord Swinton and Lord Hartington in the House of Commons, the idiief object being to lay down a programme for negotiations for some progress to be made in the Pacific shipping question, Dr. Page and Mr Menzies pleading its urgency. Jt is understood that New Zealand may desire special representation, in which case a /nil conference could not begin for six weeks. It would be possible, however, to begin earlier, with Sir James Parr acting for New Zealand.