THE SHIPPING MERGER
GOVERNMENT TJROBD TO DO SOMETHING. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. June 18. At a meeting of the Council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce today the following resolution was passed :—“That this council views with profound alarm the attempt non* being made to transfer the great shipping industry of Near Zealand to a control not responsible to the people of this Dominion, and that the Government be urged .to use all means in its power to prevent the acquisition, virtual or otherwise, of the business of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand by the Pi and O. Company of Great Britain, and further to take efficient steps to prevent the control of any other essential industry of New Zealand passing outt-ido the influence of its people.” '
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9690, 19 June 1917, Page 4
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129THE SHIPPING MERGER New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9690, 19 June 1917, Page 4
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