FLAT RATE ON FREIGHT
SHIPOWNERS’ VIEWS CHANGE NOT LIKELY Press Assoctation GISBORNE, Monday. The Gisborne Harbour Board has received a communication from the head office of the Shaw’, Savill, and , Albion Company, London, on the sub- \ ject of the proposed abandonment of flat-rate freight charges in New Zealand ports. In this, the company states: “To be quite candid, we think Gisborne and other wayside ports are unnecessarily i alarmed at the action of the Welling- | ton Harbour Board. as not for a moment can be believe that New Zealand as a whole will agree to give producers in the neighbourhood of main ports certain preference over producers at roadstead ports. From the shipowners point of view, we probabiy would welcome an arrangement that would effect curtailing ports of load- , ing and coastwise steaming, but this is a matter not controlled by the shipowner, as he is expected to cater for trade efficiently in fair or foul weather. We cannot believe for one moment that differentiation can possibly be made in favour of the main ports to the detriment of other ports, and shall be very much surprised if any legislation be forthcoming that will in any way change the present system under which smaller ports enjoy the same privileges as the larger ones."
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 12
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213FLAT RATE ON FREIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 12
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