SHIPPING FREIGHTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21981, 16 June 1933, Page 6

SHIPPING FREIGHTS

THREAT OF COMPETITION MR W. J. POLSON’S VIEWS. £ In an interview Mr Poison, M.P., president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, expressed agreement with the movement to secure competition to cut freights as a means of reducing costs. “ The controversy regarding the sins of omission and commission of competing shipping concerns is threatening to overshadow in the minds of many people that all important consideration,” -he said. “ IVe are not concerned at the Blue Star Company’s attempt to maintain its Argentine connection now that it is losing some of it. We are concerned in seeing that the line becomes effective competition with the great shipping trust which to-day absolutely controls the whole of our overseas shipping. We have paid for whatever service we have had in the past, and it is unreasonable for those who control it to take up the attitude that because they have had no competition in the past this is their territory and that no competitor should now be allowed to enter it,”

Due to the fact that Mr Horace W. Remington, managing director of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company, Ltd., has been appointed to the high executive position of export sales manager at the head office in America, Mr John V. Moran, an Australian, will now succeed Mr Remington as managing director of the Australian organisation. Mr Moran, who served four years in the Great War, joined the Col-gate-Palmolive-Peet Company, Ltd., at the inception of the Australian business in 1921, then known as the Palmolive Company (Australasia), Ltd.