WOOL FREIGHTS.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2899, 11 October 1916, Page 8

WOOL FREIGHTS.

tTlie Now,,, Zealand Govorament has bled to Mr. Massey on tho siibjccfc tiio rise in wool freights. Without 9 aasistanco of tlie Imperial Governthe New Zealand Government-is ipowaflees to holp exporters in their protest against the inoreaso. The New , Zealand Government cannot commandoer /the ships. It could prohibit the . . export <*{ mtb the object of com- ... palling' ihp shipping companies -to'rc- - Saoa 't&eir freights, but such a proJabitJon, it is belioved, would almost' " ftartiiinly hate tho offeot desired. pQIO yosnMj it is feared, would pro- , (fc&bty lo tiaiF ill©■ships would be divert- . fed other trades,, in which, it is said, . [the tewarcfa are oven richer than in . Zealand trade. Near at hand - j'Austraßa can fill all the space avail- - fabfe, Tho New Zealand Government Wal4 purchase or charter ships, but [cn{y at prices baeo&on the war earnings :'2 which nro enormous, and s 'tte Qorenmient might possibly come ftq, 4he tonclnaion that it would be. bolter to bear tho impost of increased ... freights than. to' pay the high prices - [which would assuredly b» demanded for "itlna purchase outright or tho charter ' k>f ships. ■ Imperial. Government, " ■however, dould commandeer the ships and fix euoh rates of freight as might,; , : bo deemed to bo-equitable. -Waiwanm correspondent, "X," >- Writes ;—ln your farming and commer- • 'rial column of Saturday, reference is - 'made -to the London charges on wool ' • 'this year, and you state that for certain rdes of wool worth locally Is. per to obtain this parity, in London the Wool should bring slightly more, .than : I6d. You have omitted, however, to ... provide for the commission and other i- 'expenses for offering the wool for sale -'in Wellington, so that the difference in - 'shipping to London and selling in Wellington is not so much as ; you state." Entries for the Wairarapa Show are • reported to be coming in freely, and the „. .indications are that 'they.-wOl be as 'numerous as in past years. ■ Wednes'■;day, Ostobef 11, is the date advertised', ■ - for closing of entries, but late, .entries , will he received for a few /days later. Numerous side-shows have already"' " 1 booked space at the Wairarapa Show * on October 25 and 26, and the ohildren, (old and young) should find amuse-1 mentrsufficient to satisfy even'them, j