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NEW TRANSHIPMENT RATES. NEW PLYMOUTH’S TRADE DIRECT. New rates for New Zealand transhipment ports, varying between 2s 6d and 7s 6d a ton below those previously in operation, have been arranged as the result of negotiations in England between exporters, the Board of Trade and shipping companies carrying cargo to New Zealand. The rates announced are: Auckland 25s a ton, Apia (Samoa) 60s, Blenheim 255, Bluff 255, Dunedin and Port Chalmers 255, Gisborne 32s 6d, Greymouth 255, Hokitika 40s, Levuka (Fiji) 60s, Lyttelton 255, Napier 255, Nelson 22s 6d, New Plymouth 27s 6d, Oamaru 255, Patea 255, Picton 22s 6d, Rarotonga 60s, Russell 255, Suva 60s, Tauranga 27s 6d, Timaru 255, Tongataboo ' (Friendly Islands)' 60s, Wanganui 22s 6d, Westport 255, Wellington 255. The charges will be payable in England, and therefore exchange must be added to them. While the new rates will be acceptable to importers as a means of lessening costs, New Plymouth will not be greatly affected by the change as it is becoming more and more a direct port and only a very small proportion of imports is by transhipment. Primary produce is not affected at all, and the only recent transhipments have been those of American goods, to which the new rate does not apply.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 March 1935, Page 9
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