RAILWAYS COMPETITION
SIR ERNEST DAVIS’S PROTEST. CO-ORDINATION WANTED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 31. A vigorous protest against uneconomic competition by the Railway Department was voiced by Sir Ernest Davis, chairman of directors of the Northern Shipping Co., at the annual meeting of shareholders. “In spite of the increases in operating costs and the shorter working hours given its employees by the eompanj',” he said, “the Railway Department has relentlessly maintained its competitive rates to ports jointly served by it and the company. How the department can manage to do this I confess I do not know.” Sir Ernest sounded a note of caution to the railways, stating that the continuation of unjust preference might lead to the extinction of yet another cr/.stnl shipping company and its allied services. “What we want,” he added, “is coordination, not destructive competition.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 1 June 1937, Page 5
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