COMMONWEALTH MAIL SERVICES.
THE FODDER DUTIES.
Melbourne, June 24. A Parliamentary return shows that the Commonwealth pays £140,000 annually for the carriage of external and coastal mails, including £72,000 to the Orient and P. and O. Companies, and £17,500 to the Vancouver service. Townsville, June 24. The position of affairs with regard to the strike of wharf lumpers is unchanged. Steamers are "getting away after a little delay. The waterside workers are waiting instructions from headquarters at Melbourne. Sydney, June 24. The railway authorities have discovered abuses of the starving stock concessions on fodder. Consignments have been sent by fodder agents to stations just outside the metropolitan area at the reduced rates, and thence forwarded at ordinary rates.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 147, 26 June 1902, Page 4
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118COMMONWEALTH MAIL SERVICES. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 147, 26 June 1902, Page 4
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