STEAMER SUBSIDY
TASMANIAN DECISION HOBART, December 14. The Legislative Council agreed to subsidise Huddart, Parker, Ltd., to the extent of £2OOO to maintain the steamer Zealandia in the Hobart-Sydney service for three months from January 12. Members agreed that the principle of the subsidy was wholly wrong, and that the maintenance of inter-State communications was a Federal responsibility, but felt that they must either agree to the subsidy or go without the snip. "The shipping combine is nothing but. a gigantic piracy," said Mr. McDonlad, "and I find myself supporting the subsidy like a one-armed traveller giving up his wallet to a highwayman with a pistol at his head." The hope was expressed that tho payment of the subsidy would influence the Federal Government into taking a moro sympathetic view of the whole matter. /
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16838, 29 December 1928, Page 7
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134STEAMER SUBSIDY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16838, 29 December 1928, Page 7
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