WORLD'S EMPTY SHIPYARDS.
So serious is the slump in shipbuilding that in the first quarter of this year only 26.000 tons of new ships were begun in British shipyards. The greater part of the yards are empty. So email is the demand for new vessels that in all the world last quarter the number of new ships begun was only 810,000 tons. One nas to ; go back 46 years to find a period when so little work was being done in the shipyards.*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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83WORLD'S EMPTY SHIPYARDS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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