SHIPPING FREIGHTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 167, 14 June 1933, Page 5

SHIPPING FREIGHTS.

A REDUCTION URGED. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 13. A joint meeting of the exporters’ and importers’ committees of tho Chamber of Commerce considered the question of freights on produce exported from the Dominion and passed a resolution urging that representations be made to the shipping companies to have a substantial reduction made. The following resolution was carried ; That in view of the following facts —(a) The general fall in the values of all commodities exported from New Zealand; (b) our products have to compete with those from other sources which are carried at much lower rates of freight, even after allowing for our geographical handicap; (c) overseas'eompanies since 1924 have afforded very little relief, and none at all in some cases, in freight rates on general cargo outwards —representations be made to shipping companies with a view to obtaining reductions which are long overdue, and that this chamber affirms, as a general principle, that freight rates for general cargo should be left, subject to ordinary business competition, untrammelled by restrictions at present made operative in agreements for the carriage of produce and goods entered into by produce control boards.