TRAFFIC LICENCES
DAIRYMEN PROTEST
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WHANGAREI, This Day. Suppliers to the Hikurangi Dairy Company yesterday passed a resolution strongly protesting against the powers of vetoing the issuing of heavy traffic licences placed in the hands of master carriers' associations, an interested party, and expressing the opinion that producers' representatives should have that power. Mr. A. Wibgin referred to^the system as being worse than Tammany Hall, and said there was a prospect of the directors having to crawl on their hands and knees to the master carriers to have their rream carted for one run. He understood on good authority that the' Carriers' Association would attempt to prevent farmers possessing trucks from carting manure or goods from railway stations. Mr. F. Elliott, chairman, said he was | surprised at the alleged statement by! Mr. E. J. Phelan/the No. 1 Licensing Authority, to the effect that his future attitude would be influenced largely by the wishes of the Carriers' Association. .''...
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 15
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159TRAFFIC LICENCES Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 15
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