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"would otherwise go to other flags".
"I am unbiassed in these opinions as none
"of the lines represented by me are members of any
"combination".
In conclusion I think it may be safely
assumed that had any of the numerous Shipping Conferences, which
are interested in the Far Eastern trade acted in an arbitrary
manner or in any way handicapped or checked the free development
of trade the Committee would have received far more protest
than those contained in the above three extracts against a
system which has for many years been almost universal in the
varicus branches of shipping trade centering in this Colony.
The fact that so few firms have even
replied to the circular appears to this Committee to point
clearly to the fact that no serious complaint can be raised
against the working of the Conferences in this part of the
World.
I have etc.,
(Sd.) E. A. Hewett, Chairman.
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