SHIPPING FREIGHTS AND PROSPECTS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 4 January 1918, Page 7

SHIPPING FREIGHTS AND PROSPECTS

B*. TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION,

WELLINGTON, Jan. 4. Mr Massey states that He iias communicated with the imperial Government, asking that increased freight rates should not apply to commoai..__ in store awaiting shipment prior to ti:. New Year —that is that reasonable notice should be given before the increase came into operation. The supply of shipping during t! month promised to be particularly good, and he believed that the amount of produce shipped within a month wouid constitute a record.