CHARGE FOR FREIGHT
Farmers seek
inquiry
A remit urging the setting up of a commission of inquiry into the rising costs of rail and coastal shipping services in New Zealand was put forward to next month’s provincial conference of North Canterbury Federated Farmers by the agriculture section executive. Moving the remit the vicechairman (Mr N. Q. Wright) described internal transport costs as reaching “frightening proportions.” He said that 66 to 80 per cent of all produce from Canterbury farmers went to the North Island. Mr J. S. J. McCaskey said that to bring a machine from Denmark to New Zealand cost only fractionally more than to send an item from Christchurch to Hamilton. The chairman (Mr A. L. Mulholland) said an inquiry was long overdue. It was time that something concrete was done about rising internal freight costs. I
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32588, 23 April 1971, Page 11
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