“PERILOUS POSITION”
COASTAL SHIPPING UNFCONOM TC COM PETITION (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “Through unfair and uneconomic coinpetition, coastal shipping to-day is in a perilous position. said Mr. Ernest Davis, tin; chairman of directors of the Northern Steamship Company Limited, at the annual meeting this afternoon.
“It is our hope that the Government will accord some measure of protection to this industry which, equally with other services, has played a part in the development of our country and provides a livelihood for many thousands of work-
Mr. Davis suggested to the Government that it should consider subsidising coastal shipping for carrying fertilisers at .1 low rate in the same way as if subsidised the railways.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19027, 29 May 1936, Page 13
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