REDUCED FREIGHT.
RAILWAY AGENTS' METHODS. PROTEST FROM FOXTON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Monday. The Foxton Harbour Board to-day decided to protest against the activities of the railway business agents who, it was stated, were endeavouring to persuade flaxmillers to send the whole of their hemp by rail to Wellington and offering a reduced freight which, it was alleged, would undercut the shipping rate, and at the same time be unprofitable to the railway. The railways would have to haul the hemp 50 miles further than it need be carried. At present the port of Foxton is handling 25 per cent' of the hemp exported from the district, and if it loses that there will be no outward freight.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1930, Page 9
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119REDUCED FREIGHT. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1930, Page 9
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