Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 9. 1ts May 1973
State Shipping Line
State Shipping Line
The brave promises of a state shipping line to prevent the shipping monopolies from bleeding New Zealand are already evaporating. The Minister of Transport now says it would be foolish to compete with private shipping but a state line could open up new unprofitable trade routes until they are profitable enough for the Union Steam Ship Company! Thus has an anti-monopoly promise been stood on its head to actually assist monopoly!