STEAMER FREIGHTS.
STATEMENT BY PREMIER. What action was the Government going to take consequent on the report of the Agricultural and Pastoral Industries Stock and. Commerce Committee on the shipping question? asked Mr W. H. Field (Otaki) of (lie Prime Minister, in the House of Representatives this week. The farmers, lie slated, were looking to the Government for protection in regard to this mailer, and for shipping freights to be reduced to a rcasonabe level. Mr Massey said that he had very little to add to what he had said on previous occasions. A very large and representative meeting of producers was held some time ago, and an executive committee set up to deal with shipping matters. He proposed to meet that commit lee when Ihe session came to an end; and, in the meantime, he had cabled to the Imperial authorities, slating that there was great dissatisfaction in the Dominion in regard (o vales charged, and that the hign rales of freights would very seriously affect the primary industries of New Zealand. To that cable he had’not yet received a reply.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2203, 16 November 1920, Page 1
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182STEAMER FREIGHTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2203, 16 November 1920, Page 1
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