ROCKETING COSTS
Pricet of Cargo Ships Rises Sharpiy (Reeeived 13, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. Mr Bectoi Bywater, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says: "The niolitltihg costs of steel are sending up the price of merchant tonnage Standard types of cargo ships are 300 per cent higher than last year and liners from 35 to 40 per cent. There is every «nd cation that the rise has not reachcd its peak. The large volunie of Admiralfcy wbrk ig eontributing to the increhsed costs. Skilled- labour it short and most yatds *ro fully occupisd."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 5
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