FREIGHTS INCREASED.
NEW RATES ON MARCH 1. SHIPPING COMPANY'S DECISION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Increases in coastal shipping freight rates are being made by the Union Steam Ship Company and other companies engaged in the New Zealand coastal trade to meet in part higher operating costs. In a circular to merchants and other shippers the /Union Company states: "In view of increases in wages, ashore and afloat, now occurring, we are reluctantly compelled to increase freight rates, and we have to advise that, commencing on February 15, New Zealand coastal freight rates will be increased by approximately 3/ a ton, and in addition to this cost discharge into railway trucks (at Wellington) will be 2/6 a ton instead of the present rate of 1 /." The Union Company has also announced that , intercolonial freights ■will be increased 10 per cent. The new rates will come into force on March 1., The increase will also apply to cargo shipped at South Australian ports for New Zealand.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 16
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