More Competition For Railways?
"The Press” Special Service DUNEDIN, July 23. Further loosening-up of the protective legislation for the railways is sought by a Rotorua remit to be debated by the National Party’s annual conference, which opens in Dunedin on Saturday. The remit says that at present where a route includes 40 miles of open railway not more than a third longer than the direct road route general goods may be carried by road only in order to put them on the railway. Beyond this, goods must be taken by truck to the nearest railway station, transferred to a rail waggon, and the process repeated in reverse at the station of destination. This means a waste of manpower in four manual handlings of the goods, instead of two terminal handlings; breakages which are hard to pinpoint, and the use of three vehicles instead of one, “resulting in poor utilisation of capital and overseas funds.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30811, 24 July 1965, Page 23
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154More Competition For Railways? Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30811, 24 July 1965, Page 23
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