TRANSPORT RIVALRY.
" UNJUST COMPETITION." THE RAILWAY VIEWPOINT. [BY TELEGRAnr. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Friday. "Wo railway people arc here night rml clay prepared to cart goods at low rates, which in some cases aro quite unrcmunerative," said the general manager of railways, Mr. 11. 11. Sterling, in icply to a deputation at Hamilton to-day "Wo do this to advance the country as a whole. The economic and industrial development of tho country would have been greatly retarded but for the action of tho railways in this respect You t.rc paying toward tho profits made by the motor transport companies. They may carry your goods at a slightly lower rate, but they cannot keep going permanently." Mr. Sterling pointed out that the settlers were paying rates for tho damage to the roads and also paying for the deficiencies of tho railways. Actually they were helping to pay somethinc off the motor transport companies' bills This was where the rank injustice came in. Yet tho railways were expected to give the same service and show the same accounts as they did before the unjust competition was introduced.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20312, 20 July 1929, Page 12
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184TRANSPORT RIVALRY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20312, 20 July 1929, Page 12
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