Misunderstanding Over Freight Rates On Art
fN.Z. Press Association’ AUCKLAND, March 14. The imposiion of ad valorem rates on two overseas art exhibitions being returned to Europe appeared to have arisen from a misunderstanding, the secretary of the New Zealand European Shipping Association (Mr L. Riley) has told the director of the Auckland Art Gallery (Mr G. C. Docking). The ad valorem charges meant that up to 4 per cent of the value of cargo could be charged, irrespective of weight and size. These had not been applied to previous exhibitions. Mr Riley said it had been agreed to charge the normal rate on a shinment of German paintings to Hamburg and one of Italian sculpture to Genoa Rates for future shipments ■ft under review, he said Freight for the German ■■ paintings, which was to have
cost £BOB 3s will now cost £155, about the cost of bringing the exhibition to New Zealand. The Italian sculpture will be shipped for £250, not £1347 18s.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660315.2.143
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume CV, Issue 31009, 15 March 1966, Page 16
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164Misunderstanding Over Freight Rates On Art Press, Volume CV, Issue 31009, 15 March 1966, Page 16
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in