STEAMER PASSENGER RATES.
GOVERNMENT AND PROPOSED
INCREASE
j (Press Association Telegram.) j WELLINGTON, June 18. I Referring to a reported morons? I in passenger rates across the 1 acme i from Amercia to New Zealand and j Australia, the . Postmaster-General I said lie understood that there was. to ! be a general increase on all fares in British ships and the first advice was 1 that this would apply also to tnrnsj Pacific ships. Since then the Gov- ! eminent had been contradicting icports and was conferring with the Union Company to see what the * position was* exactly. The yovernmeut was directly interested, because the conditions under, wliicn the sub- . sidy to the Vancouver service was i paid might be affected. One of ti.e • conditions of payment of the subsidy i was that passengers should be earned ' at a certain rate. The Gover-nmeiu ■ would have to discuss with the ' Union Company whether the proposed increase in rates was justifiable.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4899, 19 June 1918, Page 2
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