SPEED TESTS
SAVE IN MAIL SUBSIDIES U.S. SHIPPING OVERPAID WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. Postal officials reported yesterday" thai tlie United States Government was saving millions through speed tests given to vessels operating under existing ocean mail contracts. The speed tests wen; ordered after last year's Post Office Deportment, investigalion of ocean mail contracts, which, officials said, disclosed that many ships were claiming higher mileage, than fhose to which they were entitled. Already. 30 ships of the 200 or so carrying the mail have been reclassified and their pay rate reduced. These reductions alone amount to more th'an 611400,0(50 on the (otal life of the contracts. ' The rale is fixed according to the speed and tonnage of a snip. A class two ship, for instance, must be of 16.0C0 gross tonnage and capable of 20 knots In ordinarv weather to receive £2 a'mile. Tlie Post, Office investigation showed that many ships had been accepted as being class four—£l 4s a mile —and class live—£l a mile—when they were really only class six vessels.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18988, 13 April 1936, Page 10
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171SPEED TESTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18988, 13 April 1936, Page 10
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