REDUCTIONS IN FREIGHT
AUSTRALLAN' SHIPPING. MEAT,-FRUIT AND WOOL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) SYDNEY, Aug. 18. Over.sea shipowners have agreed to grant shippers of Australian produce substantial reductions in freight on meat, fruit and wool. An offer to grant reductions greater than those suggested in June lias also been made to shippers of dairy produce. It is estimated 1 the total saving to' shippers will exceed £1,400,000 a year. Reductions of 7A per cent in the freight on beef and mutton, 10 per cent on lamb and 20 per cent on pork and veal will operate from Thursday last. Shippers of fruit have been offei-ed a reduction of twopence a case on apples shipped during June and threepence a case on shipments during July or later in the season.
Wool shippers have been granted a reduction of one-sixteentlx of a. penny per pound.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 August 1933, Page 5
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