WAIRARAPA CARRIERS WELL PLEASED
Railways Road Services Cease Dominion Special Service. MASTERTON, October 7. Operations of all Railways Department road services in the Wairarapa ceased on Saturday. The five or six lorries formerly engaged in the service between Wellington and Masterton will, it is understood, be taken over by the Defence Department, and some at least of the men engaged on the road services are to be absorbed by the Railways Department. Freight carried on the Wairarapa line will show a sudden increase as a result of the Government’s decision to discontinue road services operating parallel to the railway. However, local tradesmen expect a substantial increase in freight rates, and it was stated by one firm that cement freights, to quote one item, would be almost doubled.
Local carriers are very satisfied with the war economy measure, as it will mean for them the regaining of most of the business previously taken from them by the delivery of goods direct to shops and homes in Wairarapa towns by the department’s long-distance haulers. There is only one firm now engaged ou road transport between Masterton and Wellington, and it maintains but one lorry.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 12, 9 October 1939, Page 6
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