SOUTH AFRICAN SHIPPING
ANTI-COMBINE LEGISLATION TO PREVENT HIGH CHARGES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association CAPETOWN, May 23. An important Government measure affecting the shipping trade in the shape of an Ocean Freights Bill and Regulation Bill was read a first time in the Union Assembly. It is understood that the measure is the outcome of the recent reduction in freight given by a shipping line at tlie instance of South African merchants in London to meet the competition of outside charterers. The bill provides for the prevention of unreasonable freight charges for the transport oversea of goods to and from the Union, and for the discouragement of certain shipping combines by enabling the Governor-General to differentiate as regards Union dock charges and railway rates on goods shipped in ships belonging to persons who attempt to charge freightage which the Government regards as detrimental to South African trade.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12455, 25 May 1926, Page 2
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