MOTOR TRANSPORT.
EFFECT ON RAILWAYS. (PRESS ABSOCIA.TIOW TBLIGRAK.) HAMILTON, July 19. Denouncing the competition of motor-lorries with the railways under present conditions as a rank injustice, Mr H. H. Sterling, general manager, told a deputation to-day that the railways could never pay while such conditions existed. If the businessmen of the cities and towns co-operated and supported their own railways the unfair competition would soon be removed. Railway rates in some cases were unremunerative, and had been so fixed to benefit the whole country. Lorries might carry goods at slightly lower rates, but they could not keep going permanently. Settlers were paying rates for damage to roads and for railway deficits and they were also helping to pay something off the motor transport companies' bills. This was a rank injustice, yet the railways were expected to give the same service and show the same accounts as before the unjust competition began.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19676, 20 July 1929, Page 14
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151MOTOR TRANSPORT. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19676, 20 July 1929, Page 14
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