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STEAMSHIP SERVICES.
Matson Company Subsidies.
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.
LONDON, Wednesday.— A question
was raised in the House of Commons
regarding the extent to which the Uni
ted-States of America subsidises steam-
ship services to Australia and New
Zealand.
The Parliamentary .Secretary to the
Board of Trade (Dr. E. L. Burgin) re
plied that it would appear that, apart
from assistance in the form of loans
at low rates of interest to shipbuilding,
the Matson Navigation Company was
in receipt of subsidies from the United
States Government for Australian and
New Zealand steamship services
amounting to about 1,250.000 dollars
annually, some part of which repre
sented services rendered in the car
riage of mails.
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