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Show NEW SCHEME FOR WHEATSHIPK ENT SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 12. Efforts to encourage shipments of Australian wheat to California for re-shipment to the European allies in the form of flour thus saving bottoms because of the lesser bulk of the finished product, lie behind a reduction in freight rates from San Francisco to Gulf ports announced an-nounced today by the Southern Pacific Railroad company. The new rates of sixty cents per hundred in carload lots become effective effec-tive November 19 and apply only to wheat and flour consigned to Europe. The reduction amounts to approxl- i P mately five cents and ten cents, respec- J ;. tively. per hundredweight to Galveston J '. and Now Orleans. ;'t This action was taken at the request M ;' of the California Grain corporation of j the United States food adniinistra- I f t'.9!l Uon. p Mi Wheat previously shipped directly 1 ; njVtP from Australia to Europe is to be sent 1 i rji to California for milling and the flour ' trans-shipped from Gulf ports at a j great saving in shipping space, accord- J vHI Ing to the plans of the grain corpora- ,t tion, co-operating with tho Australian government, it was announced. . nn |