DEVELOPING COLONIAL TRADE.
CHEAPER FREIGHTS TO BE INAUGURATED. " «—— United Press Association—By Electric «• Telegraph—Copyright(Received February 6th, 8.12 a.m.) LONDON, February 5. Lord Onslow, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce dinner at Edinburgh, said he blamed the Shipping Lines' Conference and the Union-Castle Company for the high freights which were impeding trade. Now that the Transvaal and Orange River Colony Governments were placing large orders for every kind of goods for the development of the colonies, the tfctaial Office woula endeavour to secure, even if it chartered its own steamers, fair but remunerative freights for goods for both the Government i and the public F Mr Copehnd, the Agent-General for New ■ South Wales, speaking at the Edinburgh Ch-_oW>of Commerce dinner, described announcement thereat as the •■»>-*• ' ■ !:l„'i , -..5'!-£fi_-^
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11502, 7 February 1903, Page 8
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