SHIPPING RINGS.
AUSTRALIAN EVIDENCE
Received July 23, 10.20 a.m
MELBOURNE, July 23.^
At the request of the Royal Com • mission sitting in London to enquire in regard to shipping "rings," the Melbourne Chamter of Commerce has prepared a statement relative to the effect of shipping combines on Australian trade.
It sets out that the London Shipping Conference, which it is understood controls praccically all freight despatched from the United Kingdom, allows shippers a rebate of 10 per cent. It also alleges that a similar rebate agreement was enforced between Australian shippers and the steamship companies trading to the East, while an agreement, but an unwritten one, preva'ls in the Australian inter-State trade in favour of certain associated companies. It is claii led that owing to the system of rebates trade has been lost to the Commonwealth States.
There is no rebate system in the Australian and New Zealand trade.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9150, 24 July 1908, Page 5
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149SHIPPING RINGS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9150, 24 July 1908, Page 5
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