SECRET REBATES.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS SHIPPING.
COLONIAL SECRETARY’S • CHARGE. United Press Association, Copyright (Received Sept. 5, 12.25 a.in.) LONDON, Sept. 4. Captain A. If. Young, Colonial Sec- |;• .• rotary for the Straits Settlements, in his .annual report, brings a strong indictment against the shipping cotiV" ■' fercnce. The increase in freight for I’i.; the year was £164,000, and £28,000 • yearly was granted in secret rebates. {, xhis favored a small number of firms, It- the majority of them foreign, with : the result that 23,851 tons of Imperial h‘. goods were diverted to the European continent. An agitation has now begun for legislation to abolish secret fl rebates.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19080905.2.24
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2288, 5 September 1908, Page 3
Word Count
103SECRET REBATES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2288, 5 September 1908, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in