FARMERS’ TRUCKS
NO RESTRICTION ON USE [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, August 7. A definite assurance that the Government bad no intention of imposing any restrictions on farmers using their own trucks for the carriage of their produce was given by the Minister of Railways (Hon. D. G. Sullivan) to-day when asked what would be tho position of farmers as a result of the Government buying out transport services operating parallel with the railways. The Minister said the Government had never contemplated imposing any such restrictions on the farmers, but plans were in hand with a view to giving the public a flexible first-class goods service, which he hoped and expected would be so attractive that it would be to the advantage of the farmers to use it.
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Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 14
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128FARMERS’ TRUCKS Evening Star, Issue 22722, 9 August 1937, Page 14
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