MARITIME INTERESTS
IMPORTANCE TO DOMINION APPEAL BY MINISTER (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Plans to aid the mercantile marine and the part it played in the lives of New Zealanders were outlined by the Minister of Marine, the Hon. P. Fraser, at a social function organised by shipping interests. The Minister emphasised the fact that New Zealand was a maritime country, and that even those who did not go to sea had an important part to play in carrying out the great maritime industry. The immediate problem was the Pacific, and that could be solved. f
Mr. Fraser hoped that it would be possible to eliminate cut-throat competition among modes of transport.
Another way in which the Government and the people of the country could aid the mercantile marine, continued the Minister, was by making thg shores safer. Recent events had impressed this need upon the country, and the Government had laid down a programme to provido radio beacons and other safety devices.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 5
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