MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.
EELEASE OF SHIPS
v Atwtralian and h.'l. Cable Aesociatiom) (Rocoivod Thursday, at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. Sir Joseph Mac Lay (Shipping Controller), speaking at the Australian and New Zealand Club, said that it would be twelve months before it was possible to restore the Australasian mail service on anything liko tho old basis. Though owners were doing their utmost it was impossible that the new mail contracts would be anything like as favourable as the old ones, owing to vossolg costing two and a half to three times as much as formerly. If the P. and O. Company secures a mail contract, it will use white crews for the Australian trade but it would bo impossible to man the Mercantile Marino with British labour alone. Negotiations between the Board of Trade and tho shipowners were proceeding regarding the terms on which the vessels would bo released from Government control. A condition was that they should be worked in future to secure the precedence of Government cargo. All ships would probably be handed back to tho owners within a mouth. The iriniatry of Shipping was going out of business.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13795, 27 March 1919, Page 5
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190MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13795, 27 March 1919, Page 5
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