AUSTRALIAN FREIGHTS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN FREIGHTS.

MR HUGHES AND SOUTH AFRICAN CRITICISM.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

Ar London, April 3. Mr Hughes is indignant at Mr Burton'restatement that the Australian Government is guilty of profiteering iv that rt charged double freight on wheat other than by British ships. Mr Hughes's reply is that the statement is .without foundation. The Commonwealth Line's rate is slightly, over half the neutral* rates, and identical with the rates on requisitioned liners. The Commonwealth Lino further benefited the producers, including those of South Africa, by keeping the general rate considerably below] the world's parity.