LARGE FREIGHT REDUCTION
AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE SHIPPERS SAVING OF £400,000 ANNUALLY. SYDNEY, August 18. Oversea 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 Juno was also made to shippers of dairy produce. It is estimated that the total saving to shippers will exceed £400,000 per year. Reductions of 7J per eent in freight on beef and mutton, 10 per eent on lamb and 20 per eent on pork and veal will operate from Thursday last. Ship pers of fruit were offered a reduction of two-pence per case on apples shipped during June, and three-pence per case on shipments during July or later in the season.
Wool shippers have been granted # reduction of one-sixteenth of a pennv per pound.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 211, 19 August 1933, Page 9
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