COST OF FREIGHTS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 5

COST OF FREIGHTS

BRITISH .SHIPPING DISPUTE COMPARISON OF CHAGEF? (Aust- and N.Z. Cable) Loudon. May 8. ••British ships are carrying British goods to New Zealand at freights 50 to 125 p. . cent, higher than British ships are carrying American goo.ls from Now York to New Zealand.” 'this, charge is contained in tin* iik moi andmn of a group, of important British manufacturers which lias U M* submitted to the Board of Trade. '‘This,” says the Daily Express, "is the first step in a war between industrialists and shipping conferences who are blamed for thus blocking the expansion of the export trade.” The Daily Express has interviewed other manufnel urers. 'who complain the Argentine trade similarly is hampered hy high freights.