INLAND SEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 180, 6 April 1915, Page 3

INLAND SEWS.

-REAPING. -A HARVEST. v .- ) ‘ HI RIPI-NG rr)M.iA^X;^AH^Av ; ; j.>P j | . Fit EIGHTS? j ’ ' -A j Tho recent advances in the snip - j • ping freights were’ fiivfHe'F'lViseiissfi’J " (. day by- Alt" Robett -Burnc, iir3.-5-.if ; i the’ ChiiMiOt rof • Commerce. H ■!;i'•■;-.it ’linrticnlavly with 1a• ‘--ft'-H 4 'if hfeß'former hid terns n-t«v of Mr. ' I'uiTeit,-' cf the N.Z. Shippi.-g Ccv,. ;-.a!iy'_ •' -A' ■■■•-■ ]ic-C?r:»S th The’ sugy;vdi;v; nT : ;.r apJ»estlit&tl vo’s of shipping 'edrI -<vi6s in AVelll'T ic.-a that hr; state ij r-'jnrs Ijhovi-SPg Tick. of hjformaCf.h } jV'Bcfts ifaid fhaj the freight rates : hm quoted were SUfi-'-H hi to 'hi.'.' - the Nev Zmli; cl Sk'>r;taS Ccm , .-The: .'company jncKleclel to 1 __ in''U Ini thht- 'prior to the ombre:|cf war contracts had, b f ee f tt r? foi ••• r-,'. carriage of’buttor “ and "lit ; i.-ft ..at Lite old rates, . and, that the [ ■!>: Hlvwge civ 25 $0? ’cent" was not inweed cn.. tiiic class c.; cargo. j-h:s attention, v/as i drawn to this fat s !. : had■ .made a 'correction ..of. hi - j. I tribal -statement. “The roterenet ■i however, Obvious, ” '"'Mr Ruriig ’re-; I rr-kad, “time in'the absence of the?*.-' p . -tracts:' the shipping - compani-.* I cAikl have’levied the 25 per - cent silk i barge" on'butter iui-1 'meat. T am if'" i-<- rot ad the freight ra tes-tor--shiv-t ■at a of stitch cargo from Australia !■• here .similar cchtrabls net boon | mein. have bean.. materially incraaslid.” ‘ i “Ohjer.dfqu lies, been taken.;”' Mr : darns continued, “tba*. it wa s unfair 1 g, estimate 'the earning capacity of ■! •ttchtiVerg on - til’s: basis Lf a vessel cap ble or' carrying 12,000: tons of cargo, 1 rlo bad therefore examined the actual -,jf 3: .c£ the ;. steamer Anglo -B Vai*i 1 iaW” - vessel, of. 4038: tens .--net- register.?. Tgydrqr. the ■ la-?f round;: trip c-f thir- ■ ■steamer;.vsr.aririliustration cf the n i H-i created 'by the increase r . h f.-h lets, :r .vers tl of -that s : zc should I’tav.t a cargo .'capacity cf seven thous’* .j add tens. He had not been, able tc | c .;-:.- rtaiji exactly the quantity of cargo j carried by the steamer on her ’ last ! voyage, as a portion of it hatj ,bgen 1 landed at Australian ports and records of these eonsi-gnxxients. .tyero not, 'r-v liable. f l’he steamer had been i-lhliy loaded, her original cargo could ’ iv. L have been Hess than six thousand icn-j. _ Freights from Montreal had j advanced by 42s 6d on the minimum rale, and 57s 6d on the maximum.. Taking the former figures as the basis, it was apparent that on her I last outward voyage the AngloTlra'dlian had ea.rned £-12,450 more llbaa che - would have done on the .Tilly ■ rates.

Mr Burns said he had taken the ■ liguros given by the “New Zealand Trade'*Review” for the vessel's heme-

; v.-hx-d'-cargo, ahd haying caHyulathd i the freights as carefully lie |(!c-:*o without 1 the actual account, he '-hbd 't fclin’d : that the «haif r of tbs j fr- * rht was' s’" 5 ’" greater by £5500 than lit. would;;have been on; the rates ' in ■ ferye- befoi-o the war. 'The earning's ■{.■of the- steamer for the round voyage, | therefore,,., nh.owed' an agg(rea.a,te inres so of £3 8,250. That figure. ,he contended was- ehtirey disproportionate j-to the inodease in working expenses. ihe increase ■ scemod startling jen a vessel cf the size of the Angle- ; Brazilian ,?p<l,.i--sv.culd \f.nrk .-.out . at | mcra per ten than the increase j which he • originally calculated .for a steamer of 12,000 tons capacity. Mr 1 Burns added that his had been mad e on a most ccnsc.rvaj tivo basis, ano his figures could be i -i-.-u ily checked, as the steamer came ito New Zealand under 'consignment, ito the* New Zealand Shipping ■ Comi I'any. [ Referring- to the quest ion,, cf wm-fe-j iagv expenses, Mr Bums said ’ he. couldnot understand tho statement by Mr Turrell that cca! had doubled in price. He was informed by the man--s.ger -for the- Whstport C^al-.i Company that the statement was in fact innorrect. No advance had been made in the price of bunker coal ex-collier the only'increase being 2s per'ton on coal ex bulk. ’ '