OCEAN FREIGHTS.
ANOTHER RISE PROBABLE
(Special to Star.) WELLINGTON. Ju.
The recent increase to £10 per ton in' freights from England to New Zealand is. not likely to be the last during the war period. Owing to th.c demand for American transport, shipping is going to become scarcer, at any rate for the carriage of ordinary merchandise, and it is expected that the Imperial authorities will further discourage exports from Britain by another rise in charges. The high rate is regarded in some quarters not so much as an indication of real cost of treatment, as a gentle hint to overseas communities not to draw too heavily on the manufacturing resources of the Mother Country during this time of stress. '
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 January 1918, Page 5
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120OCEAN FREIGHTS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 2 January 1918, Page 5
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