NAVIGATION ACT
ROYAL COMMISSION SITTING. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) HOBART, January 28. Mr Alfred Willing, a timber merchant, in giving evidence before the Royal Commission on the operation of the Navigation Act, said that since the Act came into force he had lost business through his inability to secure shipping when he wanted it. The business which he once had with New Zealand had been lost for the same reason, and he had been compelled to refuse orders from there because of the lack of shipping facilities. He said it was all nonsense for the Union Steam Ship Company to say that it had intimated that a vessel was available to load timber, but it was unable to obtain cargo. Witness invited the Commission to visit the wharves and see two shiploads whiclTXvere waiting for space.
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Southland Times, Issue 19157, 29 January 1924, Page 8
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