ROAD AND RAIL COMPETITION.
Sir.—The waste caused by allowing rail and road to compete is a burning question with all intelligent electors who are not interested. Large sums are spent to make concrete roads where rail communication was establishes year a ago. If all modern traffic competing with rail were stopped more consideration could be given our roadless farm lands. The dire necessity of our primary producers to get egress and ingress during winter, as well as summer, is really the first consideration to commercial success here, and She present loss to our ratepayers in read and rail competition should be stopped by the Government. The tax of 4d per gallon on petrol has. not relieved the farmers, who are still robbed by county taxes,, while many have not even a surveyed road to their farina West Coaster
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 14
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138ROAD AND RAIL COMPETITION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19859, 1 February 1928, Page 14
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