BRITISH SHIPPING
LAWS REQUIRING AMENDMENT. LONDON, February 2.
The Liverpool steamship-owners' Association adopted a report declaring that statesmen of all parties realised that the country's position as the world's sea carrier lras threatened because shipowners were forced to compete on unequal terms with foreigners, even in the United Kingdom, and immediate legislation was imperative. The laws needing alteration were no part of the country's general fiscal policy, and tariff reformers and Freetraders condemned them.
Forty-rime thousand five hundred and forty-fire vessels, with a tonnage of 25,896,191 tons, cleared to and from the Thames during 1903, an increase of 244 vessels and 1,480,528 tons, constituting
a record. Eighty per cent, ofi the increase related to oversea trade.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 30
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116BRITISH SHIPPING LAWS REQUIRING AMENDMENT. LONDON, February 2. Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 30
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