SUEZ CANAL DUES.
A REDUCTION ANNOUNCED. By Telegraph Press Association.—Copyright. r London, December 13. • Thk Suez Canal Company has decided from January 7 to reduce its rates 75 centimes per ton. This reduction will mean a saving to the Peninsular and Oriental Company alone of £30,000 yearly. The present rate of transit charged by the Suez Canal Company is eight francs 50 cents per ton, this rate being a reduction from the nine francs. charged* before January 1, 1903. The receipts in 1903 were £4,144,812.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13050, 15 December 1905, Page 5
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