Freight Rates
Sir,—New Zealanders are most shocked (and rightly so) at the tremendous rise in the cargo freight rates and passenger fares imposed by the Conference lines. An expert has said that the Increase in 12 years has been 51.6 per cent. In any well and pro-perly-run business an increase of this proportion would not be tolerated, and I cannot see why New Zealand should have to suffer for the rank inefficiency that these increases show. We in New Zealand can no longer afford to sit back and be fleeced by large overseas shipping combines. We need a truely New Zealand shipping company to handle our cargoes, a shipping company that is absolutely free from outside domination of financiers.—Yours, etc., SEAGULL. July 9, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31108, 11 July 1966, Page 12
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124Freight Rates Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31108, 11 July 1966, Page 12
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