RISE IN FREIGHTS
ON INTERCOLONIAL STEAMERS. IBy IV.EVr.-iDli.-Prr*:; Afaocifltion.) Dunedin, June 20. In .connection'with tho Sydney cable .'message regarding.,freights,increase, jt is mentioned that tho increase applies to all routes to and from Nov; Zealand, •and follows on Mr. Justice Higgins's recent award in connection with tho Australian waterside workers. It should be understood tho increase only affects the intercolonial trade, the New Zealand coastal rates remaining as before. It might be mentioned that while the companies trading between Australian ports incrsased the fares by 10 per cent, and the freight rates by at least oighteenpence' a ton, in addition ,to abolishing certain concessions previously existing, the companies trading betweeii New Zealand and Australia added but 5 per cent, and one shilling per toil respectively. ''
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 6
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124RISE IN FREIGHTS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2182, 22 June 1914, Page 6
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