FREIGHT ON BUTTER.
CONSIDERABLE INCREASE. STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER. [BY TELEGBAPH.—SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ] Wellington, Tuesday. Considerably increased steamer freights on butter from New Zealand to England are to be charged during the coming season.
The Prime Minister stated in the House of Representatives to-day, in reply to Mr. H. 3. H. Okey (Taranaki), that he had received advice from the chairman of the New Zealand Oversea Shipowners' Committee that the freight on butter had been increased from 3s to 3s 9d per box. Towards the end of last season the Board of Trade notified him that it proposed to increase the freight on butter by 6d per box. He asked it to postpone the coming into operation of this extra rate until the end of May. This meant, in effect, that the rate was 2s 6d for the whole of last season, and so the increase for this season was virtually from 2s 6d to 3s 9d, or 50 per cent. He had already communicated with the Board of Trade through the High Commissioner to ask whether any modification in this charge could be made, but in view of the fact that the rate from Australia was 3s 9d per box he hardly though; New Zealand could expect its butter to be carried for a less charge.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16035, 29 September 1915, Page 4
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