TUNNEL RATES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13597, 4 December 1909, Page 10

TUNNEL RATES.

PBOTEST BY INDUSTRIAL ASSO- * ' CIATION. . ••£.'' J i ■ The question of the LyttotofrGM&V-s j church railway charges and the reftatt< | of the Government to supplj cert»i» : fc '■ } information asked , for by the Hoa.'fl. L* ; F. Wigram, -was discussed at thejjwr-liL- | terly meeting of the s \ diistrial Association last night, Y < tha following motion was prcgoeftj M/ W. W. Charters :—"Tni», MM! ■,',>?■ tion regrets that the Gownntatt WPt j-B still unprepared to do ingjacs tOjjjijtt B users of the Lyttelton and CtetstpAjgfe'' »4B railway in the matter of charging |j sivj rates, and gathers f r^-jj^J^*3felj Wigram that no ' afforded the public as to?»»1j«™W Jg; made upon this section fifeinformation might he usea "m to obtain that measure of jnwk» which we are entitled, and ti™*jflK in spite of Dr. FrndWi rrfankwf; Wigrain will, supported by otitter terbury representatives, persist' **fflfjr- I deavouring, to obtain the I formation." t^^We Mr J. L. Scott said that *w-«»fe,M cession previously made by the Department regarding the. goods by dead weight instead or surement rates, was more than real. It only affected the jWfffß goods, the heavier goods, wmeb. "wftwSgß the bulk of the traffic, already co*J9§§B under the dead weight and he did not think it wottld , sgpS to more than £1000 a year M the importers. . '"siß The motion was adopted. - t^siS