MENACED BY SHIPPING COMBINE
LONDON, June 7. .: The .opinion is strongly held by tbe Australian emigration officers thai the shipping. combine's determination to raise the contract fares. to ■< £14, will have the> effect of seriously restricting the, immigration movement, especially m view of the increasing activity of Canada and South America. It is 'felt that the companies are taking a mean advantage of the position created by Government advertising. The emigration authorities assert that the present rate is 'a profit-^ able, one, and that: the shipping companies are abnormally prosperous. Mr Hunter, Director V' of ..- the . New, South Wiles Immigration .and Tourist Bureau, who is now m London, is endeavoring to arrange for a concerted protest-by the States. • .'_■-, Surprise is expressed that, the Australian states do not. retaliate'against the companies, by imposing: higher-port charges on the combine's vessels. Shippers on both sides are decidedly against what one prominent num declared' today was a growing monopoly of a ainiister character. - >,.•" ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12789, 14 June 1912, Page 5
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159MENACED BY SHIPPING COMBINE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12789, 14 June 1912, Page 5
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