FREIGHTS TO DOMINION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19879, 24 February 1928, Page 9

FREIGHTS TO DOMINION.

COMPLAINT OF< ANOMALY* I WORKING OF SMALL PORTS. An alleged anomaly in shipping freights to New Zealand "was dealt with by Mr. A. G. Lunn, retiring president of the Chamber of Commerce, at the annual meeting yesterday. Attention had been directed by members of the chamber to the very much lower freights charged from London to Australia, and to other ports in the South Seas, than from London to New Zealand, the difference an a number of hardware lines being 10s a ton, while motor-cars coining to New Zealand from England cost over 33 1-3 per cent, more for freight than if shipped to Australia. 1 "The question arises," said Mr. Lunn, 1 "as to whether the shipping companies are i making the freights to New Zealand pay for freights from the Dominion." He asked was the outward shipping of primary produce organised as it should ba, and characterised as an absurdity the multiplicity of small ports in this country worked at great cast by overseas vessels. Liners had been known to spend as many an 78 days in New Zealand waters and in most cases they spent a third longer time here than would be required ! if calls were restricted to main ports for the collection or primary produce. It appeared to nim that inward freights were being made to compensate fof the waste so occasioned.