INCREASED RAILWAY RATES
COAL OWNERS’ PROTEST. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 20. A deputation representing the coal mining companies of the Auckland Province interviewed Mr T. W, Waite (Commercial Agent for the New Zealand Railways), and urged that the additional 10 per cent, freight meant a serious blow to the coal-mining industry' unless a corresponding imposition was placed on coal imported from Newcastle. Each year New 'Zealand imported from Newcastle 450,000 tons of coal, worth about £500,000, though we were able to produce in this country coal just as good. Westport coal was the best in the world. The cost of production had gone up considerably, and there was a clamor from some of the federation people for a 20 per cent, rise in wages. The New Zealand companies on August 7, 1914, decided not to increase the price of coal during war time,. Mr Waite promised to bring the views of ✓the deputation before the General Manager of Railways immediately on his return to Wellington.
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Evening Star, Issue 15914, 21 September 1915, Page 3
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167INCREASED RAILWAY RATES Evening Star, Issue 15914, 21 September 1915, Page 3
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