OVERSEA SHIPPING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10243, 4 September 1909, Page 3

OVERSEA SHIPPING.

[Bt Elictkic Teleoeaph—CopTßlOßT I (Per Press Association.) |' t >reived September 3. at 11.15 p.m. London, September 3. Arrived —F.lso. front Lyttelton : \\ akanni. trout Wellington. Sailed —Ilimutaka. for Wellington. Received September 4. at 10.30 a.m. Sydney, September 4. Arrived (early>—Mokoia. Melbourne, September 4. Regarding the Liverpool and London Steamship Protection Association's renewals to the Australian and New Zealand steamship companies, the secretary (it the Steftmship Owners' Association states thai the Australian tonnage excluded from the benefits of the Associatimr is approximately 390,000 tons, so that the liability transferred to Australian and Xcvv Zealand shipowners is This risk is of such magnitude that it is regarded with the gravest concern by all interested. T'nflirttinately the tonnage owned in Australia ami" New Zealand is too limited te form similar clubs here, and the_ decision placed members of the Association in an extremely serious position. The wluile matter will have to become the subject of most careful consideration.