PASSAGES TO AUSTRALIA.
PROTEST AGAINST RATE. LONDON, October 21. I The Agents of the Australian Stat " are to meet to-morrow to formula 1 their cases for submission to Mr. L. ) M. S. Amery, Under-Secretary of Sta ' : for the Colonies, against the excess': I rate demanded for the conveyance t emigrants. It is understood that ti 1 Agents favour the utilisation by t Government of the German steame : trading to Australia under tbe flaga the Conference Lines to secure the lowc possible rates for emigrants, perhnps conjunction with the Commonweal Line. Some resent the Conference Lin I basing their passage tariff on the prese I day cost of new tonnage, although I most instances the vessels running in t trade were built at pre-war prices. y j is likely that the agents will request > i i Amcry to arrange a conference betwe - their * shipping Ministry and the sh owners. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 251, 22 October 1919, Page 7
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