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Co Enter Australasian Trade

4 USTRALIAN shipping com x panies trading with the East are disturbed because they elieve that Japan will make a etermined drive for Australian and ew Zealand trade about the riddle of this year.

Shipping interests say that those Iready in the trade can handle 11 freight between Australia and apan without difficulty and that )me ships are now returning from apan without full loads.

If Japan comes into active com stition with them “someone is ring to get hurt . . . and we feel lat it shouldn’t be us.”

They believe that Japan, which as few ships of its own, would not j able to enter the trade if it were at for the help of America which •egards Japan as the 49th State.”

Whatever reversal of feeling the tnericans entertain for Japan, iti- Japanese feeling in Australia still high, nor is there much likeli aod of a change. However, they e unlikely to allow these senti ents to interfere with a chance to ;t more or cheaper goods or duced freight rates.

The attitude of the Australian dpowners is understandable, but e general public is more likely to el that anything no matter 10m it hurts—that would have a lutary effect on freights and ship ng generally would be worth Ping.

The demands of seamen and the ritating go-slow tactics of com unist-dominated waterside unions

ive ham-strung Australian ports

id shipping since the end of the ir. The result—slow turn around ships, increased freight charges, ortage of goods cannot be amed upon the shipowners but it only through the shipowners that ese militant maritime unionists n be hurt—in their pockets.

It will be interesting to see, if d when the Jap ships return to istralia, how they negotiate the jmendous bottle-necks that Aus dasian ports have become.

Pwo Japanese shipping repre itatives were in Australia nego ,ting with Australian shipping tnpanies in December, It has en announced that Burns Philp d Co., Ltd., will be agents for the Y.K Line and that two other tnpanies will be agents for the b.K. and Yamashita Lines.

Mrs. James Narman Hall, widow the famous writer, recently left ihiti, her homeland, for Hono u. She will later go to Holly- Kid, Cal., to live with her son inrad.