REDUCTION IN FREIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 14

REDUCTION IN FREIGHTS

SAVINGS TO PRODUCERS

The Overseas Shipowners' Allotment Committee announce reductions in freight on the following. classes of general cargo as from today, November 1: — Greasy wool and sheepskins, reduced to 15-lßd per lb. Slipe wool, reduced to 1 l-16d per lb. Washed wool, reduced to 1 3-16 d per lb. Tallow, reduced to 64s per ton weight. Pelts, reduced to 80s 9d per ton weight. Casings, reduced to 85s Cd per ton weight. Hides,' reduced to 80s 9d per ton weight. Preserved meats, reduced to 47s Gd per ton measurement. Meat extract, reduced to 123s Gd per ton measurement. All the above rates. are plus the usual primage, and subject to the current conditions regarding exchange. „ These reduced rates to come into effect on all shipments made in vessels sailing finally from the Dominion on and after November 1, 1933. The Overseas Shipowners wish to call public attention to the fact that in these bad times they have already made reductions on other classes of- cargo totalling £300,000 per annum in the endeavour to assist New Zealand producers, and the only hope the shipowners have of mini■mising these sacrifices is by greatly increased trade between the United Kingdom and the Dominion.

Contracts for the carriage of butter and cheese and frozen meat for the next three years at reduced freight rates have already been referred to and are in operation, with savings to producers of about. £180,000 on meat and £124,000 on butter and cheese.