REDUCTION OF FREIGHTS,

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1482, 16 June 1905, Page 3

REDUCTION OF FREIGHTS,

Mr R. G. Hallamore, manager of the lew Zealand Shipping Company, advises a that the rate of freight on wool has een reduced from £d to §d per lb, and hat a general reduction will also be made n other cargo. The reduction came into oroe yesterday. The local commercial ouses also report to the same effect. '(Per Press Association.) » Wellington, last night. It is announced that the direct lines of teamships trading from New Zealand to jondon will' make substantial reductions f general cargo rates, to take effect from o-day. The reduction in the case of woql

s 25 per cent. Reductions, it is also tated, will be made in the rate, of tallow, 1 lelts, and tallow. The Now Zealand and African Shipping Company have made a further reduction n the rate of freight from New Zealand iqrts to Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Manhester and Glasgow. They now carry mtter at three-eighths of a penny per lb.

» ... Dunedin, last night. The freights on wool by the direct learners of the New Zealand Shipping lompany and Tyser lino are reduced from o-day to the following rates :—Wool : Srea3y, |d per lb ; slipe, 7-18 d ; washed, Id—all with 5 per cent primage. The ate of freight on tallow is also raduced to 15s per ton, with 10 per cent prinngy and an pelts to 82s 6d pec ton, with 10 per sent primage.