FOREIGN SHIPPING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20987, 25 September 1931, Page 12

FOREIGN SHIPPING.

Sir,—The British Government, in this time of peril to all members of the Empire, repeats the warning of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to British citizens nob to increase their country's difficulties by helping with their money those foreign elements who are relentlessly attacking British credit, to smash it. One is therefore entitled to ask the business men of Auckland if they still welcome the advent of foreign shipping competition with our own steamship lines in these waters as an excellent and advantageous thing for the people of this Dominion. It cannot be too often or too strongly emphasised that we are absolutely dependent on the British market for the sale of all we produce, and that any action of ours which assists to weaken the purchasing power of the people of Great Britain must inevitably react to our own detriment. In these circumstances I feel that the primary producers of the Auckland Province, by and through wh#m the business men of Auckland City eat, live and have their being, are entitled to ask these business men to at once fall into line with their associates throughout the rest of the Dominion and urge all good New Zealanders to support with their fares and freights the British steamers that provide so many splendid services for them in Pacific waters.. J. D. Gray. Matakana September 22, 1931.