“UNDUE PREFERENCE"

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10538, 15 March 1920, Page 4

“UNDUE PREFERENCE"

NEW ZEALAND’S COMPLAINT. NOT GETTING_A FAIR DEAL. “Maorilander,” ,en route to New Zealand in a troopship (whose name is not given), writes to the “British Australasian’’ saying—“ Everyone ■is more or less, discontented. There i* a very decided feeling that the Shipping Control is reaping a big profit out of ,ns, and that' none of us is. really getting a fail - deal. Their present system of charging first-class fares for the second-saloon and second-class fares for the third-saloon, is only an ingenious method of rising prices, and everyone feels cheated. Qn this ship wo have eight English people going out to New Zealand for the first time, and none of them are our soldiers' dependents in any way. Two of them are privileged passengers, each with a first-class cabin to himself, while ‘dinkum’ New Zealanders who have paid their first-class fare are obliged to take second-class accommodation, and while hundreds of our own New Zealand folk who have been war-working are hung up in England yet. Also on this ship ore eight colonials who arrived in England after the Armistice, and who cannot justly have the . right to return before those others who havo been waiting so long.’' The editor comments that the complaint concerning the grants of passage to English people and to others who have come to England recently, while passages are refused to warworkers and people who have been years away from home, “we . have heard from many sources, and this undue preference is .bitterly resented.''