OVERSEAS FREIGHT
SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS MEAT, FRUIT AND WOOL AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)
SYDNEY, 18th August. Oversea shipowners have agreed to grant shippers of Australian produce substantial reductions in freight on meat, fruit and wool.
-hi offer to grant reductions greater than those suggested in Juno has also been made to shippers of dairy produce. It is estimated that the totai saving to shippers will exceed £400,000 a year. Reductions of 7£ per cent, in freight on beef and mutton, 10 per cent, oil lamb, and 20 per cent, on pork and veal operate from Thursday last. Shippers of fruit are offered a reduction of 2d per case on apples shipped during June, and 3d per case on shipments during July or later in tho season. Wool shippers aro granted a reduction of l-16d per pound.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 August 1933, Page 7
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138OVERSEAS FREIGHT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 August 1933, Page 7
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