LOSSES OF FREIGHT
Dissatisfaction With Liability
(From Our Own Reporter) ROTORUA, Oct 14. Dissatisfaction with the limitation of the liability of the Railways Department to $4O for freight lost while in railway hands was expressed at the fifty-fourth annual conference of the Timber Merchants' Federation in Rotorua today. One member said that a truckload of timber could be lost—and that this had happened—without the department being liable for more than $4O. A study of legislation on the subject, beginning with the Government Railways Act, 1926, indicated that railways liability for the safe carriage of livestock had been set at higher monetary limits each time the legislation had been amended, whereas the amounts for parcels and freight in the general category had been unchanged since 1944, “The farmers, as usual, had a good lobby here,” said Mr G. R. Kear (Manawatu), in presenting the case.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32119, 15 October 1969, Page 30
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