INCREASING FREIGHT CHARGES.
(From Our Own Correspondent). [ _ Wellington, Dee. 30. The latest increase in shipping freights has been made hv the Imperial Government and it is believed to affect all produce not handled by the Imperial Supplies Department. The announcement of details here has been delayed by the holidays, the public Departments being either closcl down until next week or working with skeleton staffs.
I The Prime Minister, when the matter was mentioned to him, said he had information to the effect that the freights on flax, tallow, kauri .s'tim and other products were bring increased hv direction or the Imperial Jiovernment, which presumably was finding that the present rates were not remunerative in the face of the Increasing snipping l costs. But he had not received definite figures.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1918, Page 2
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