THE UNION COMPANY AND THE MAORILAND COMPANY.
(SPKCTAI, TO "THE PRKSS "\ WELLINGTON, December 17. During the debate on the mail service question in the House of Representatives today, MY T. E. Taylor referred to the Union Company as a gigantic monopoly, and stated thkt it had "absorbed" the Maoriland Company. Mr Buxton paid he watt a director of the Maoriland Company, and he wished to give this statement an emphatic denial. The position was that an agreement as to working terms had been arrived nt.
Mr Taylor: "I should like to see the correspondence that passed between the two companies. Will the hon. member produce that?" Mr Buxton said he would not give details of the agreement, but the position was as stated.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13609, 18 December 1909, Page 11
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