WEST OF ENGLAND TRADE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14215, 3 June 1910, Page 3

WEST OF ENGLAND TRADE.

mjt* — ■■ ■■■ ■ N.Z. FREIGHT GRIEVANCES. Li a very- comprehensive annual repeat, issued by iuj Al-uciiester Assocatiou ot importers and Exporters, special refeivnee is nude to ;ua eonuroions oi cargo trail, port to New Zealand. A conuiuui.cation has been received iorm memoers engug d in tlio rwiv Zealand trade, to tne eliect that whereas the cargo steamers to Australia carr.ej goods at ios per ton less than the iat t s cuarged by 'he mail steamers, the lat.s by the csi.gj steamers to .Neiv Zealand w c r_ only os ton less than was cha ged by tlu mail steamers. Correspondence ensued witii the London Association with 'tlii" object of jointly approaching the snipping companies in .nduce place -Sou- Zealand on the Aus;rai.iVH ba is. It had bevn 70.nied out in tuat xuu -iustraiuui steamers w re,' ' "mail stL'iuue'.s,''' in every sc-n.e of..the term, while, on the other hand, the s-rculled New Zealand mail stean.eis w.re not in tlie same category, although they carried letters, lu. was, tneiciurj, decided not :o approach tlie enferenoj on this matt.r. Attention had aiso been directed to the rates for "rough" jjjoods to New Zealand ujmg the same a& by cargo and mail steamers, but it Has ueeii u^cideJ not to take any action, becatise it was thought to be possible that intervention nngnt have t.ie effect of causing the rates by the m;;il etjamers to be raised and not of the rates by the cargo steamers to be reduced.

_ W'.th regard to the clause in ths -Australian charter pai"tles, which precluded the Manchester importers ofgra.n from ordering; sailing from the port of call to the Manchester ship canal, the ieport Stated that thj Australian Chamber of Commerce as we.l as exporters of grain from Austra ia Jiad been approach d, and the desi.ed change in the sailing ship charter party would doubtles, he estab shed. Now Zealand Chambers had also irad tlieir attention drawn to-the needed change. The Canterbury Chamber of Commerce .had already written to say that they sympathised with the Association's endeavours to have re. moved the disadvantage under which shippers of New Zen land wheat and oats suffer by the old clause in the charter party. As steamers were also ■bringing errors of grain from Australia and New Zpal-n'"! to Euron?an ports, it was emnlip*i s ed that their charter parties should conta : n m clause relatint to Manchctrr or tlio Ship <"""nal. The cust-T-. Mary clausp prov'ding for the discharrr" at "~ny s°fe nort in the Uniterl Vnrrdom" was all that Tras r».

Correspondence with the Federal-Houlder-shire line of stoamers, who maintain a regular monthly scrv'ce from Manchester to New Z.aland ports, in respect of expediting the voyag s, had hod a very satisfactory result. Th.? steamship owners had promised ti see what could h ■ done to comply with th: 1 request of the Association, and said they thought the Association would find in future that the steamers would arrive at the first New Zealand part on the G'3id day after leaving Manchester.