FREIGHT WAR.
, NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE ’ ' COMPANIES. " ' ‘ ' I >--n -i—. I PRESS ASSOCIATION I Chrritoburob, last night. I The freight war in the homeward shipI ping trade from’ the colony is apparently I about to terminate. ' Negotiations with I that object are now in progress, and it is I not unlikely that' a settlement' will ba reached in the course of a day or two. ’ \ A Conference between the Companies concerned was held in Christchurch yesterday, and another was held to-day, while the managers at other centres are being communicated with by telegraph. Enquiries were made in shipping circles to-day, but great reticence was observed in all quarters,
I As far as could be gathered the progress of the negotiations point to an amicable settlement being very shortly arrived at, though matters of detail are still under discussion.
It is believed that the Federal Houlder Shire line will agree to coniine its attention IQ the west of-England, ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1940, 23 November 1906, Page 2
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156FREIGHT WAR. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1940, 23 November 1906, Page 2
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