PACIFIC SHIPPING
PROTECTION OF INTERESTS. American shipping would certainly lose by being deprived of trans-Tas-man trade, but it would still have the advantage of subsidies and less irksome operating conditions, and for these reasons the competition would still be unfair. The very fact, how ever, that the Empire countries are prepared to take some action may be accepted as evidence ot their determination to protect their own inter ests, and there is good ground for hoping that the present move will be sufficient to emphasise the need for an amicable agreement being reached This is the preliminary objective, and it it is not attained then the Empire will require to take other steps to show that it will not permit its vast mercantile marine to be threatened with extinction in this part ot the world. In the meantime, there will be general agreement that tire present measure is the least that could be adopted, and there will be a wide spread hope that it will be the most that is required.—Poverty Bay Herald.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3829, 4 November 1936, Page 5
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