OVERSEA SHIPPING CHARGES TO RISE
P.A. INVERCARGILL. Feb 23. Although it is reported that a general increase in overseas freight rates is to come into force on March 1, Southland is to have some compensation in the removal of an outport rale of 4.5 dollars per ton which has been levied by many shipping lines on cargo landed at Bluff,
Private advice to this effect was received at Invercargill to-da v from Canada.
The removal of this outport surcharge. which has been applicable to all New Zealand outports and has been a serious handicap to local importers and the port of Bluff, is to take effect on March 1.
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Grey River Argus, 26 February 1949, Page 7
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