SURCHARGE ADDED
SHIPPING PASSAGES. ACTION BY CONFERENCE. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, December 10. Owing to the adverse exchange rates the Australian and New Zealand Shipping Conference decided to make a surcharge of 5 per cent, on passages from New Zealand via Suez, the Cape, Panama and the Cape Horn routes. From December 24 this surcharge will be added to all passage money paid in New Zealand. The surcharge will not apply to passages booked before December 24 and intending passengers who have already paid deposits on tickets to be available at a future date are not subject to the impost. The conference, in making the announcement, states that it has been reluctantly compelled to make the surcharge in view of the high cost of exchange in remitting money to the head offices of the shipping lines in London.
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Southland Times, Issue 21265, 11 December 1930, Page 6
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139SURCHARGE ADDED Southland Times, Issue 21265, 11 December 1930, Page 6
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