A QUESTIONABLE BENEFIT. ::■ - The Premier at .Auckland claimed to that he had secured' a reduction of ■; freights by threatening to subsidise the German steamers. ' But, whoever is en- -"--. titled to tho claim for reducing the 7; . freights, it is a very barren honour. Not 7 y eina of those concerned need put on any . "'•" :; airs about it, for the regular traders, es7'T pooially theN.Z,S. Company, owned to ft f T7Toon.Blderablfi.Oittent.by colonists, sufferod ;'-.''■*-; not only' by the reduction of freights, but A'-vi A. by having their, customary freights de>ivy.vorfed to strangers. , The result is that 77-.wliil«f'afew. woolgroivera profited by the 7?7'?Buhßtitutioiiof foreign ships for our own sjpyJrftgulMtraders, jibe .shareholders of the TTi7' i l«Jttl^«Sjßiny7went without dividends for of.. them have their ; T7^« WBpany. Itis, opAm?^Jl^.g£oyi^:..vy .'•.-' •'-"•'-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 90, 25 April 1898, Page 3
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124Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXII, Issue 90, 25 April 1898, Page 3
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