SHIPPING FARES

Otago Witness, Issue 3619, 24 July 1923, Page 61

SHIPPING FARES

(Froii Oub Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, July 15. It is believed in Sydney that certain German shipping companies will run vessels to Australia that will take passengers to Europe at a rate that will enable them to get to the British Empire Exhibition fo r £3O, or £4O less than by any other service. The fares between Great Britain and the colonies are so attractive from the shipping companies’ point of view that it was a foregone conclusion that as soon as the Germans got their scattered mercantile marine into anything like shape again they would try to get a slice of this profitable colonial trade. The new German steamer Freiburg, which is now loading in Australia for tho Continent, is advertised to take first class passengers to Hamburg for £55 and third class for £3O. That means that, even allowing for the cost of getting from Hamburg to London, the colonial voyager could by ih.e, Freiburg get Home for quite £3O less tltt-n by going direct. At the present time the first class faro from New Zealand to London, via Suez, is £ll3 to £l3B, and via Panama £IOO to £llO. These fares are, of course, considerably above the rates ruling before the war.