NO MORE BATE WARS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 13 April 1908, Page 5

NO MORE BATE WARS.

STEAMSHIP COMPANIES TO POOL' ATLANTIC EMIGRANT TRAFFIC. Not only has air'uriderstancTiag been arrived- at ' among the steamship companies engaged in the North Atlantic : trade, by which all outstanding differences have been adjusted for a term of three years, but .negotiations have >©- - suited in the settlement of disputes in other directions. . ' ■ In the coffee trade between New York and Brazil an agreement has . been reached" between, the HamburgSouth American, Hamburg-American, and" Prince Lines and Messrs Lamport and Holt. Tticf last-nan\e^ r firm has ■decided to withdraw its service between Brazil and Hamburg in return for concessions; In the South and East African trades similar arrangements are in prospect' between the German East Africa and Unibri-Castle Lines. With the exception of that from Scandinavia and the Mediterranean,, all the Atlantic emigrant traffic is to be "pooled."