JONES SHIPPING ACT.
SOME WEIGHTY PROTESTS. A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, April 4. The Congressional hearing of the application for the enforcement of section 28 of the Jones Shipping Act, which provides that exporters employing American bottoms shall receive preferential railway rates on the transport of their commodities to ports, disclosed some interesting facts. Shipping man testified that the American export trade would bo seriously injured by the enforcement of the section, since there were not sufficient American vessels available. A prominent shipper declared that the Australian and New Zealand trad© would be hit the most heavily, since the Shipping Board avowedly has few or no vessels to take the place of English ships now plying in the American-Australasian trade. * _ Officials of the Shipping Board declared that every effort would; be made to prepare sufficient vessels. Unless American boats received this aid the Shipping Board would be compelled to ask Congressional appropriation to absorb deficits.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18678, 7 April 1924, Page 9
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