RAIL ROAD SERVICES
A protest against what he described as unfair competition between railway road services and privatelyowned transport companies was made at the quarterly meeting of the Otago provincial council of the Farmers’ Union by Mr James Begg. He said that the new increase in petrol taxation weighed the scales still further against private enterprise, as petrol used by the Government service was tax free. * A motion that where the Government services were in competition with private enterprise they should be debited with petrol taxation so that the position might be made clear to the public, was carried. “People say that the railway road services are doing well, and say that they can do the* job better than struggling private companies,” explained Mr Begg.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12819, 14 August 1939, Page 2
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125RAIL ROAD SERVICES Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12819, 14 August 1939, Page 2
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