RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 June 1925, Page 5

RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT.

ENCOURAGEMENT FOR FARMERS

MO ’ OR TRANSPORTATION: IB Y TELEGRAPH PBEBh A3SUUIA I iO.\ V DANNEVIRKE, June 11. Speaking in reply to, the toast of his health at the electric light ceremony yesterday, the. Prime Minister, Mr J. G. Coates, said that when Of. per cent, of the payable exports came from the soil they must give the agriculturalists reasonable hope and encouragement, but conditions in a few years would be better than those which existed to-day. In many parts New Zealand local rating , was becoming a burden upon many settlers, and it might be difficult to keep them on the land unless some means, were found of giving them relief. .One means of. affording relief was by decent lines of railway. He was anxious that no matter where the settlers' lived they should have their goods and merchandise handled by the Railway. Department, working in co-operation with motor transport. It was not proposed to enter into competition with the motor people in country contiguous to the railway, but he wanted to link up the motor system with the Railway 7 Department so that it would carry out the whole function of transportation from railways to settlers. Regarding the railway dairy tariff, he said thn J the new tariff proposals were adopter 1 by the Railway Department, and would be issued in the course of a few days and circulated among chambers of com-, merce, dairy companies and farmers’ unions for consideration. When criticisms had been received it would before Cabinet and himself for fin a 1 adoption.