Railway Service
INCREASED RATES QUESTION The contribution made by the railways to tiie development and general welfare of New Zealand was emphasised by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, when asked, during an interview if an increase in railway passenger fares and freight rates was contemplated as a means of eliminating the present railway operating losses. Mr Savage said the railway service was one of the services that had not increased its charges. So far tne Government had done nothing about them. *
“The present scale of railway charges has. operated for many years,” said Mr Savage. “We have been improving the service all along the line and have not increased the fares and freights. However, it is pretty obvious that we cannot keep on that way forever. No one ever talks of a good road being a drag on industry and the resources of the* country, and if that argument is sound in the case of a highway I do not see why'it does not apply with ecpjal force to our railway system.”
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Franklin Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 140, 30 November 1938, Page 3
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