HIGH FREIGHTS
' NO CHANCE OF IMPROVEMENT. 11l tho Iloiiso of Representatives yestei ■ (Jay afternoon, Air. K. M'Callum asked tli-o J. rime Minister, without notice, if lie Mould make arrangements with the Imperial authorities with a view to control, ling the shipping freights which were obtaining. between the Homeland' and hero, He mentioned that ft fleet of lour vessels which originally cost -£2110,d(W each had paid for themselves in. less than two years, whilo in one month tlie freight earned was .£'lo,ooo. Tho Right Don, W, ]?, Massey replied that since the war begun ho had been i)i repeated communication with tho Home authorities on this point, but il. seemed to bo impossiblo to get anything done to reduco. freights between now and the end of the war. He need not go into the reason tor this position, but he would like to point'oat that the freights paid on frozen meal: were paid by the Board of Trade and not by the exporters of tho country.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 14 June 1916, Page 8
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164HIGH FREIGHTS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 14 June 1916, Page 8
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