GERMAN SHIPPING ENTERPRISE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12282, 8 July 1914, Page 5

GERMAN SHIPPING ENTERPRISE.

BID FOR NEW ZEALAND TRADE. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright:] Per. Press Association. Received July 8, at 8.50 a..m. * London, July 7' The Financial Times says though the German determination to secure a larger share of tlie New Zealand trade 'lias naturally raised an outcry in Britain, Antipodean _ shippers complain that British lines inadequately studied their convenience, especially regarding ports of call. . English companies have nothing to fear if. tlie.y study-New Zealand customers' interests. Received July 8, at 9.50 a.m. Sydney, July 8.

The German Consul, replying to the Herald's criticisms of the German lines takiug up tlie New* Zealand trade, says the whole undertaking is as much private business as any other. Neither company is receiving any subsidy from the German Government. They will take ■ wool not only- .'for German but other European ports, so that tliew will open the -Continental markets for the primary producers of the Dominion.