SHIPPING FREIGHTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1916, Page 3

SHIPPING FREIGHTS.

ft HAT THE FARMERS MIGHT DO. The following is a copy of a letter fr-m Sir J. G. Wilson to the secretary of the Taranaki Farmers' Union ExecuDvar Sir, —V/culd you say to the executive how much I appreciate their resolution. Tile, freight on wool would have been highsr only the shipping companies found out that Scales Company tias getting a vessel to carry 30,000 bales, and that tliey eculd do it at 2Jd. They i'if ended to raisu the freights to the same as for Australia, viz., 2Jd, and were consi, ering 3d, but had to name the same as Scales, which company is outside the ri:,g. This mount a saving in freight to Now Zealand of t'375,000, showing what ccu'd be done if farmers would combine. One penny per lb on wool, butter and cfetese would bring in £1,600,000. In two years we should have a fleet of frcr.i,d-to-none up-to-date cargo steamers. Even the talk tlu-t there has been about it serves a good purpose. The worst of it is that at the end of the war some people will enter into a contract for fre'glit, and contract to only send by contracting steamers, and thus exclude any others. The farmers have the whole tiling in their own hands. JAMES G. WILSON.