N.Z. Government’s Attitude
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Subsidised Shipping
SPEAKING at Wellington on December 18 the Hon. P. Fraser (Minister for Marine) gave an indication of the prob able attitude of the new N.Z. Labour Government in dealing with the problem of subsidised shipping in the Pacific.
“We have to consider as a domestic duty to our own people how we can main tain our ships trading across the Pacific and the Tasman,’’ he said.
“We want to be fair to all concerned, J)ut in our desire to be fair to others we are not going to be unfair to ourselves and our own country. That will be the view the Government will take.
“We ask for the help and assistance of all concerned, even those who, per haps unconsciously, may be the means of making things difficult for us.”
Dr. Edwin Degolia, of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, left San Francisco, U.S.A., by the Monterey on January 7 for Hawaii and Suva, to study health conditions in the Pacific. “Ways must be found for humanity to live with security in the tropics with freedom from dis eases,” he declared, “because ultimately the tropics must provide the foodstuffs to replenish the depleted supplies from the remainder of the world.”