LOWER PILOTAGE FEES
ACTION AT AUCKLAND AUCKLAND. February 7. \ reduction in pilotage fees estimated to wive the shipping companies £IO,BOO was decided upon by the Auckland Harbour Board yesterday. The maximum rate of pilotage is to be #•SO in and £3O out for each vessel, with half-rales for a second visit 011 the same trip to the Dominion, and no vessel will be charged pilotage for more than six calls in one year. The estimated saving a year to shipping companies trading with .'~and will be:—Matson Line £4750, NewZealand Shipping Company £2646, Union Steam Ship Company £I2OO, Shaw, Savill Company £920, Blue' Star Line £727, Commonwealth and Dominion Line £370, sundry £2OO. The chairman of the board said the reductions would seriously hamper the carrying-out of many contemplated improvements, but the board's object was to make the port even more popular.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21084, 8 February 1934, Page 15
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