SHIPPING FACILITIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16653, 24 May 1928, Page 7

SHIPPING FACILITIES

FLAT RATE SYSTEM

THE ATTACK RESUMED

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day

A motion was discussed by the Harbor 'Board protesting against tho .system of flat rate for freight: from all ports of Now Zealand, and tho setting up of ,i' committee to go into the question in all its bearings.

Mr. G. Mitchell, tho mover, said Wellington Avas being unjustly penalised to make up the loss on other ports, and £I,OGO,COO a year was being lost. What was tho tiso of the safe and modern wharves and the facilities provided here when we had to pay for risks taken in dangerous harbors and roadsteads, elsewhere., , ; ' ■ . ~,. > '.Other speafcors supported Mr'.'Mitchell aha.blamed the meat and dairy .boards. for tho system: It was said, however, that, the National Dairy Asssociation had arranged the flat "rate before those bodies came; into existence. , One member, Mr. Turrell, opposed the motion,"claiming generally that Wellington was doing very well as it was, and great cost would bo incurred for additional wharves and sheds. Nothing-like £1,000,000 would bo saved. He. was going on to say .that Mr. Mitchell wanted to concentrate ships in "two" ports'," but""tho"'latter "denied 'that" he had. ever-said sneh a .thing, . Some' others thought it better to omit that part of the motion protesting against the flat rate, and the motion was catried with this,deleted.