FREIGHT ON MEAT.
REDUCTION FROM AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Received Nov. 9, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 8. British shipping companies have reduced the freight on frozen mutton from Australia from 1 3-8 d to lid. —Times Service. LOWER FREIGHTS WANTED. Melbourne, Nov. 9. The New Australian Meat Council held an inaugural meeting, and decided to approach the Overseas Shipping Committee tc ask that the freights from Australia be reduced to a level with New Zealand freights. Mr. Rodgers announced that the Commonwealth Government would be advised by the council. It recognised that B.A.W.R.A. did good work for wool, but did not possess such experience in the meal industry as the council did. The finance committee recommended tha £40,000 be raised by a compulsory lev? for the first year’s operations, the lev] to be a halfpenny per head for cattle ant one-twelfth of a penny for sheep, for owners with 100 head of cattle or 500 sheep.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1922, Page 4
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156FREIGHT ON MEAT. Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1922, Page 4
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