FOLLOWING THE FLAG.
i CANADIAN SHIPYARDS. ~ [FROM our ows COBBBBPONDEHT.] '; ■■ '■" London, October 15. : ■'/• The managing director of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, discussing the report that his firm was about to establish yards in Canada, said what would happen in; the future would depend upon the attitude of the Canadian Government.' What would probably happen first would be the opening of repairing yards on the Canadian coast. During the past few years there had been a] series of shipping casualties on that coast, and the insurance companies had raised their rates to a very high figure. It therefore became imperative for graving" docks to be constructed at the leading Canadian ports so that damaged vessels could be repaired without undergoing the tremendous risk of taking them to the United States or across'the' Atlantic. Side by side with graving docks there would, of course, be repairing j yards, and if Messrs. Harland and.Wolff went to the Dominion they would only be following the policy adopted when . they went to Southampton after the„great shipping lines made that a port of call. In this respect it was only a case of following the mercantile flag.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14225, 23 November 1909, Page 6
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