STEAMER FREIGHTS
MOTORISTS ASK FOR REDUCTION. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 3. At a meeting of the South Island Motor Union, the chairman stated that he and two other members waited on Mr. W. H. Price, the Christchurch manager of tho Union Steam Ship Company, with refercnco to tho high freight charges on cars shipped from one island to the other. Mr. Price pointed out the risk the company ran of the cars being damaged. \ The chairman asked if the freights on the Tamahinc, which could accommodate forty cars, in tho Picton-Well ington service, could not be lowered. Mr. Price had replied that the last point would receive consideration by the company.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6900, 4 May 1929, Page 9
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