FREIGHT ON PRODUCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18216, 9 October 1922, Page 5

FREIGHT ON PRODUCE.

INCREASES COMPARED. ARGENTINE'S ADVANTAGE. J.FEOSI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. J LONDON, Aug. 25. Mr. J. S. Jessep, of tho Meat Control Board, is still very busy in London, having frequent conferences with the shipping companies on the vexed question of freight charges for meat as well as for general cargo. He has been stressing very specially the percentage increase in the case of New Zealand as against the percentage increase made with South America. Taking the 1914 meat figures as tho basis, Mr Jessep finds that in the case of the Argentine the percentago increase is 75, whereas in the case of New Zealand it is over 150. „ . . ~ The percentage ratio of increase in the case of wool, tallow, pelts, and preserved I meat has been very much greater. He has discussed with many of the leading London woolbrokcrs the relative landed cost per lb. of South American and New Zealand wool, and ho finds at the moment that there is very little increase on wool from the former country as compared with the rates thev were paying, in laH. an far as wool is concerned, this is brought about by the fact that there is more shipping competition from South America, whereas all the main lines trading from New Zealand work more or less together. Mr Jfifsep is hoping soon to start out on a tour of the leading ports of the Kingdom, to find out the local conditions and tho prospects of direct consignment of produce.