SAVING OF FREIGHT
BY SHIPPING THROUGH LOCAL PORT. There are some critics of the Foxlon noil who, while objecting lo flie payment of a levy, overlook or arc probably unaware of the financial benefits that lhe port eonfees upon those who ship through the port. Here is a concrete ease. Yesterday I lie scow “Kohi” brought in 79 tons of iron pipes for the Palmerston North Borough Council. Dad these pipes been forwarded by vail from Wellington to Palmerston Noi lli 1 hr* cost of railage at 34/9 per lon would have been £l2l 12/fi; from Wanganui lo Palmerston N. at 28/11 per ton, £lOl 4/2, and fro in Foxton to Palmerston North tin* railage at 14/8 per too was .Col tl/S. The saving of freight to Hie shippers by using the local port is . I Inns clcarlv demons! rated.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4467, 19 June 1930, Page 3
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140SAVING OF FREIGHT Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4467, 19 June 1930, Page 3
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