FEDERAL SHIPPING LAWS

Wairoa Bell, Volume XX, Issue 219, 18 February 1908, Page 5

FEDERAL SHIPPING LAWS

RESENTMENT IN ENGLAND. Speaking at a dinner in connection with the Chamber of Shipping, Sir William Robson (Hie new'AttorneyGeneral) referred to the passage in the aunual report of the Chamber in regard to Commonwaal. h shipping legislation. lie emphasised the statement that the Motherland cheerfully bore substantially the whole burden of the navy, without which the vast coast of Australia could not preserve immunity from foreign attacks for twelve months. The Motherland should at least expect a right to trade without practically prohibitive restrictions along the ooast it had to guard. Th© statesmen of Australia should be courteously bat clearly informed, that this legislation would not pass unnoticed, and would not fail, if ..persisted in, to produce an effect ,on tbe public opinion of Gieatßritain. Auotraliau statesmen would do well to ponder over che situation*