RAILWAYS CRITICISED
UNECONOMIC COMPETITION SHIPPING WARNING NOTE (Per Press Association.) Aft'K LAN I), this day. A vigorous protest against uneconomic competition by the Railways Department was voiced by Sir Frn >st Davis. the chairman of directors of the Northern Shipping Company, at the annual meeting of shareholders, "In spite of increases in operating uists and the shorter working hours given its employees by the company, the Railways Department relentlessly maintained its competitive rates to ports jointly served by it and the company," he said. "How the department can manage to do this 1 confess 1 do not know.''
Sir Ernest sounded a note of caution n (lie railways, stating that a conintuition of unjust preference might lead o the extinction of vet another coastal
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19338, 31 May 1937, Page 6
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