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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14711, 17 September 1918, Page 5

The oojlapse of: the shipbuilding industry in-Au,cldand -was dealt with by the •president of 'tho Employers* Association. Mr. Albert Spencer, m his presidential address, This .'i-country. h? stated, was ;ey.T>C|rting , kauri, that could be used for while .': shipbuilders who formerly m Auckland had been scattered*, to the';- four winds. .The Government should -impose duties. ''Not 'only,"' •added!' the president, "should we he {building wooden' vessels," but p^r-lutps fsteeil ■ ones as well, .though" this would require the development cf the iron ores of the .Dominion.'' •: v -> ,'•■*'■<-•" ' Information tliat has /reached New through official.. • channels shows, fthjjt the military authorities i\V the United States have not thought it neces. •saiy to*', place barrior* hv the way of enlistment. of men ol? German parentage. Tens of 'thousands of young Americans whose parents were born m Germany, and-.^eiy ma<ny men who were born m Germany, have been taken into the ' Amerioan Army. They are reported to be fighting against Prussian militarism as determinedly as the boys of pixre American blood. Some months ago. ah American regiment composed largely of German- Americans crossed bayonets witShi the Kaiser's crack regiments v on theWest front.; and beat- it decisively. "*