EMPIRE COMMERCE CONGRESS
SHIPPING FREIGHTS
QUICKER TRANSIT URGED
By Telegraph—Press Association. (Copyright.) (Rec. October 6, 8.5 p.m.) Cape Town, October 5.
Over a hundred delegates from Britain and the Dominions are attending the Empire. Chambers of Commerce Congress, which debated a South African resolution urging cheaper, ocean freights and quicker transit. The opposition declared that the present cargo rates did not pay the shipping companies. A compromise was ultimately effected iti an amendment merely urging quicker transit. Another motion urging that shippers be consulted before further lines are taken into the shipping combine was lost.
The congress carried a Canadian resolution urging the Dominions to contribute proportionately to the British Navy.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 11, 7 October 1927, Page 11
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