FLAT SHIPPING FREIGHTS.
THE WELLINGTON OPPOSITION.
NEW PLYMOUTH AIMEI) AT.
“There is no doubt that opposition of the Wellington Harbour Board and Chamber of Commerce to the flat rate of shipping freights is designed with ■the idea of centralising everything at the four main ports,” said Mr. S. Burgess at the meeting of the council of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce last night. He was referring to the recommendation of the importers’ committee of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce that representations should be made to the overseas shipping companies because “the present system of charging flat rates was wrong in principle.” Mr. W. J. Penn had no doubt that Mr. G. Mitchell had New Plymouth in his mind in opposing the system of fiat rates to all ports, but he thought it was realised that this port would continue to be one of the main ports. The New Zealand Shipping Company now sent their boats here, and the Shaw, Savill Line would have to do so in the near future; they could not afford to let the C. and D. Company collect all the trade.
The president : We have the cargo and they have got to come.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1926, Page 9
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