FREIGHT CONCESSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1927, Page 9

FREIGHT CONCESSION.

PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT. ONE WEST COAST STATION. HARDSHIP ALLE<;i.'>. iltr Telegraph.—Own Com-spoDn-ui.i WELLINGTON, this day. The concession in flcight rales , granted by the Railway Department for the carriage of coal from a station on! the West Coast to Dunedin was considered by the Transport an! Highways! Committee of the Wellington Liiambcr' of Commerce, and by a meeting of the Chamber last night. The committee considered ih.it no one could seriously object to the railways endeavouring to meet coni|>eiiiion (in this ca.-e, sea carriage;, lull it was a I very different matter when i>iu partial- J lar station was singled out for prefer-] ential treatment. The chairman, .Mr. ('. M J'owden, said he thought niemltcr* umil.| agree that, while the com-vs-ion wo.lld be justifiable ii it were an 1 .itTectej ail owners in the d.-;ri:. i: was a hardship to those who «i-"i. ,1 \n compe'e for the s.tnu- !j;l»mics* .;; the disirict. It was <\sr !e 1 -n acquaint the Government \\i;h t':;«- Chamber's vie-vj, and to inform the Coal Mine Otfn.-r-' A- ir >- : ciation of llie Chamber'? action