THE PROPOSED TOLLS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 31 January 1912, Page 5

THE PROPOSED TOLLS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30

Senator Bristow has introduced a Bill reducing the Panama Canal Commission membership from seven to three, •and fixing the ship toll at one dollar per net registered ton, but allowing 50 cents a tori only to American shipowners who agree to allow the use of their vessels as auxiliary cruisers in war time. . The tolls will, under the Bill, be 25 cents a ton for. coastwise craft complying with the same conditions. The Bill'; prohibits railroad-owned ■steamships.