THE SHIPPING PROBLEM.
1 To the Editor of THE SUN. | Sir, —The columns of your paper 1 are always available to those settlers in the Dominion who advocate measures for the benefit of the farming community. An enormous increase has recently taken place in | the freights on produce shipped to London from New Zealand. This fact convinces me that in order to maintain the trade routes open at reasonable rates it is a vital necesI sity for the farmers of the Domin- , ion to own their own line of steamers plying between here and Europe. The shipping company which has served us so well for many years with its local board of directors has just passed into the hands of a -powerful combination controlled outside the Dominion. I am convinced it is to the best interests of I New Zealand farmers to lose no time in promoting a company owned and controlled here in the Dominion by ourselves.—l am, etc., (i. D. (iHEENWOOD.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 857, 8 November 1916, Page 8
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163THE SHIPPING PROBLEM. Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 857, 8 November 1916, Page 8
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