RAILWAY ENTERPRISE
PROTEST BY HARBOR BOARD 6 (Per Press Association.) FOXTON, this day. The Foxton Harbor Board yesterday decided to protest against the activities of railway business agents who were endeavoring to persuade jflaxmillers to send the whole of their hemp by rail to Wellington, offering !:i reduced freight, which it was allegjed, would undercut the shipping rate, ! ami, at the same time, be unprofitable ito the railways, which would be faced |with hauling hemp 50 miles further than it needed be carried at the pre--1 sent time. The port of Foxton handles 25 per cent, of the hemp exported from the district, and if it loses that, there will be no outward freight.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17229, 8 April 1930, Page 9
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114RAILWAY ENTERPRISE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17229, 8 April 1930, Page 9
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