TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT
IN THE SHIPPING BUSINESS Reuter’* Telearnm LONDON, April 16. The Shipping Conference adopted the British delegates’ amended resolution on the League of Nations and international organisation, recording the conference’s grave concern at the rapid growth and multiplication of international organisations representing Governments and other interests, as involving unnecessary interference with shipping activities, and expressing the opinion that the League’s activities should be limited to securing and maintaining freedom of communications and transit and equitable treatment for commerce. It is noteworthy that the American delegaion did not vote on this resolution. Tho conference unanimously adopted the report of the committee on lifesaving appliances and wireless, which, inter alia, recommended some penalty for the misuse of distress signals. BRITISH SHIPBUILDING “DEFINITE UPWARD MOVEMENT” Published in "Tho Timo^ LONDON. April 16. “The Times,” in a leader, states that the present position justifies the hope that the worst point of the shipping depression has passed. “Tho past three months’ increased construe-
tion, relatively greater than in othe* countries, indicates the start of a de finite upward movement in Britain‘l shipbuilding. It seems that 1926 will show a real improYemeni.**
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12424, 19 April 1926, Page 2
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