STATE SUBSIDISED SHIPPING

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19670, 12 December 1933, Page 9

STATE SUBSIDISED SHIPPING

NEED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION STERN FIGHT FOR SEA SUPREMACY United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 10. The "Sunday Express” understands that the requests of the British tramp | steamer owners for a £3.000,000 subsiry will be granted within three weeks. Unequal Conditions Must End. I Referring to Britain's trading relations with other countries, Mr Neville Chamberlain (Chancellor of the Exchequer), in a speech at Birmingj ham, stated:— "It is not fully realised that we will ; defend ourselves if we are unfairly discriminated against. Where that | discrimination took the form of subsidies, quotas and special taxes j directed against our goods, which j were not imposed on the goods of other countries, in the past, we had to put up with the consequences of that sort of action, because our hands were tied behind our backs. To-day they are not tied any longer, and It is time it was fully realised that w r e are not prepared to sit down and see our vital interests Jeopardised by unfair discrimination of any kind.”