CURRENT TOPICS TRANSHIPPING CHARGES. A message from Wanganui on Satur day stated that, owing to the seriously j increase* charges levied by the Welling ton Harbor Board on transhipments a Wellington for various coastal ports, action is being promoted by local merchants, in conjunction with merchants of other places affected on this coast and the west coast of the South Island, with a view to diverting transhipments from Wellington to a cheaper transhipping .port. The message further added that [ the combination of importers at the various ports affected will he a very strong 1 one, controlling a large volume of cargo now transhipping at Wellington. This movement is significant, and may have disastrous consequences so far as Wellington is concerned. Since Mav 1, the Empire City Harbor Board has increased the wharfage and transhipping-
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 66, 27 June 1910, Page 4
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134Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 66, 27 June 1910, Page 4
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