UNFAIR COMPETITION
ALLEGATION AGAINST RAILWAYS SHIPPING COMPANY'S OPERATIONS (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 31. A vigorous protest' against uneconomic competition by the Railways Department was voiced by Sir Ernest Davis, chairman of directors of the Northern Shipping Company, at the annual meeting of shareholders of that company. "In spite of increases in operating costs and the shorter working hours given its employees by the company,” Sir Ernest said, “ the Railways Department relentlessly maintained its comEetitive rates to ports jointly served yit 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 coastal shipping company and its allied services. ,r What we want,” he added, "is co-ordination, not destructive competition.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 13
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