WILL NOT BE PUSHED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18991, 16 April 1936, Page 6

WILL NOT BE PUSHED

SHIPPING SUBSIDY URGE PRIME MINISTER'S VIEW •FRISCO RUN SUSPENSION (Per Picas Association.') WELLINGTON", this flay. '•We are not going to be pushed into granting subsidies or taking any other action just because the Union Steam Ship Company suddenly decides to withdraw its service," declared the Prime Minister, the Hon. M. J. Savage, with reference to the announcement Mudo yesterday by rhe company of the discontinunnco ol its Sydney-Wcllington-San Francisco service with the arrival in Sydney of the Mnungnuui in November and the Makurti in Dei-ember.' Mr. Savage said that, the Cloveniment had already indicated r.litit i 1 would he prepared to consider the granting of assistance to British shipping in the Pacific in a sympathetic manner. lie made it plain, however, that it' the Oovernmcnl decided lo

grant assistance by way of a subsidy it would require to exercise some measure of control over the service " Where fh'e Oovevnnienj 's inone> goes," said Mr. Savage, "the Gov ernment will want to have some r-.ny." Me added that if the Union Steam Ship Company was not pre pared to carry on the service, some bodv e'se would have to do the job.

LONDON NOT SURPRISED POSSIBLE HURRYING MOVE EARLY RESULTS. UNLIKELY (Klcc Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. April 16, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 15. The news of the intention of the Union Steam Ship Company to discontinue its Sydney-San Francisco service caused no surprise ill London, though the announcement at the moment is interpreted as an effort to hasten the inter-governmental decisions regarding assistance to British lines. The Associated Press is informed, however, that, the company's announcement is not likely to yield any immediate result.