WHY FREIGHTS ARE HIGHER.
MELBOURNE, this day. Giving evidence before a. Select Committee of the House of Representatives on sea carriage, the secretary of the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association stated that increased cost of coal and .wages since the Commonwealth requisitioned the inter-State ships in 1918 amounted to a million annually.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 114, 13 May 1920, Page 5
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