COAL FREIGHTS.
REASONS FOR INCREASE.
By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, Monday
Attention having been drawn to increases in freights on coal from Westport and Greymouth, Mr. C. Holdsworth, managing director of the Union SJ?. Co., said-that the rates of freight charged up to the end of last month were not nearly sufficient to meet the expenses of the steamers employed on the West Coast. In these circumstances increases were absolutely necessary, and for the next twelve months the coal companies had agreed to advances varying from 2/9 per ton to Wellington and Lyttelton to a maximum of 5/ per ton to a roadstead •port.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 158, 5 July 1921, Page 9
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