RAILWAY FREIGHTS
Dairy Concern Seeks Lower * Charges By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, August 22. The opinion that the time was overdue for lower railway freights and electric power charges was expressed by Mr. C. J. Parlane, general manager, in his address at the annulil meeting of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company to-day. Mr. Parlane said that the question of transport had been given considerable attention by the directors. While the company supported the railways, they considered that tlie time had arrived when the railway authorities should make some effort to reduce their freight charges in line with the prices which the farmer was to-dav receiving for his produce. He said that from a report prepared it appeared that the present freight rates from stations in the company’s territory to Auckland were about 100 per cent, higher than they were in 191 G while the prices that the farmer received for his butterfat were over 100 per cent, higher in 1917 than they were to-day.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 280, 23 August 1934, Page 10
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