FISH FREIGHTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 224, 21 September 1932, Page 8

FISH FREIGHTS.

NEW STRATFORD RAILWAY. SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION". INCREASED TRADE CERTAIN. Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") NEW-PLYMOUTH, this day. Auckland ' province will benefit as the South. Island so far as existing demand is concerned, and, in addition, further fish consumption in Tara-naki-should result from cheapness made possible when the new Stratford Main Trunk line operates for. goods in December next. , j Owing to uncertain weather coilditions | fish caught in North Taranaki are not ;in regular supply ? so that recourse is had to the Thames and Auckland. Although most oysters consumed in Taranaki have come from the South, the new freight rates and cutting of the time taken to dispatch should alter , the market so that Auckland oysters almost wholly supply Taranaki's needs. An instance of the effect of the present freight through the long Marton route is furnished by the fact that a sack of mussels costs 7/6 to buy at .Thames, and freight costs another 9/8. Freight on a case of fish costs 8/10. The;, new rates, which will effect considerable savings, are:— _ Old. New. £ s. . d. £ s. ,d. Auckland-New Plymouth 3 19 8 3 1 7 Thames-New Plymouth ' 3 17 4 ' 2 18 8 'Auckland-Stratford .... 3 16* 2 2 18 1 Thames-Stratford. ..... 3 13 io 2 15 2 Auckland-Hawera ...... 3 14 ' 5 2 19 10 Thames-Hawera ....... 8 11 6 2 17 . 6 It 60on should be possible to import from Auckland and Thames cheaper kinds of fish, such a!s John Dory, gurnard and barracouta, which,, because .of freight, were-mads too dear-afcpresent, -