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Show REDUCED RATES GO INTO EFFECT OTTAWA. Jan. 1. Reduced railroad passenger snd freight rata wers effje-tive effje-tive throughout the dominion today uader a ruling of the dominion railway board modifying increases granted lat bep- ,"Tnb'eastern Canada the railroad, will reduce their freight crarges Irom ill I to per cent above the rate effective before the September ruling. A reduction from ti to 0 per cent has beea ordered in the western provlncee. . Passenger rates, which were Increased W oer cent by the September Judgment, will drop i per cen until January I. 121. when the former normal rates will be restored. ' |