Benefit of Subsidy To Tramp Shipping

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 28, 3 February 1937, Page 5

Benefit of Subsidy To Tramp Shipping

LEEWAY TO BE MADE UP United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. LONDON, Feb. 1. * 1 It saved British tramp shipping from collapse,” says the Tramp Shipping Administrative Committee’s report on two years’ working of the sub sidy, which stopped the abnormal sal* of ships to foreigners. “Almost everv available British ship and every British white seaman can to-day find employ raent,” states the committee, “but lee way of £10,000,000 arrears of deprecia lion has to be met.”

The House approved of a financial resolution extending by 12 months the period in respect of which subsidies are paj'able under the British Shipping Assistance Act, 1936, as amended by the Subsidy Act last year and making provision for payment up to an aggregate sum of £2,000,000 to defray the cost of subsidies in respect of tramp voyages carried out during 1937. JAPANESE CRITICISM OF AUSTRALIA’S POLICY SHIPPING TRAFFIC BLOCKED TOKIO, Feb. 1. Denouncing recent Soviet actions interrupting Japan’s steamer and rail connections with the Siberian route to Europe, Mr. Aniau, Chief of the Foreign Office Information Bureau, added criticisim of Australia’s policy, which he said aimed at preventing Japanese shipping participating in the traffic to Australia, New Zealand, and ether Pacific Islands. He said that that was one reason why a separate Japan-New Zealand service had been established.