New Zealand.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 63, 10 November 1914, Page 5

New Zealand.

ADDED SHIPPING CHARCES.

£Pwt Pull iAMOOIAtIOIt 1 November 9

In view of the expressed intention of '.: the shipping companies to deinand pay- ; mentof freight on exports at the, port of shipment,,and ,in view ;; , of-\|hel fact '-' thai a 25 per centteurcharfge qpcargoes other than butter, cheese, and meat to . cover contingencies due to the war has already been made, Mr J. G. "Wilson. Dominion President of the Farmers' Union, has I telegraphed to the Prime i Minister as follows: "I desire strongly to protest' on behalf of the farmers against the unreasonable attitude of the shipping companies in charging freight at port' of shipment, in addition to 25 per cent surcharge on general cargp. I look •to-youy on the farmers' 'behalf, to insist upon the withdrawal from the position, which means a large additional cost on all produce." THE MAORI CONTINGENT. Papakura, November 9. ; The Premier, in the course of his speech to-night, said he was glad to say that the Imperial Government had now consented to allow the whole 500 members of the Maori contingent to go to the one destination, instead of dividing them as at first intended. DR. MCNAB'S BEREAVEMENT. Wellington, November 9. Dr. R. McNab, Liberal candidate for Hawke's Bay, to-day received a cable from England, stating that his brother* Dr. Angus McNab, was killed in action on the French frontier on Friday week. Dr. Angus McNab had served in the Bder War, and was oph- Jj thfdmic surgeon in the Charing Cross "' Ophthalmic Hospital, London, and practised in Harley Street. He had - beeu educated in Berlin and Vienna, and was an accomplished Freneh and German scholar. He published a work upon the eye. and translated into English a celebrated German work.on the same subject. He leares a widow and two little children.