Transport costs in (lie Mariawalu and Kairanga districts amounted to about £315,000 a year, said Mr. F. ■Skoglund, chairman or the No. 2 Licensing Authority, in an address to the Palmerston North Citizens’ Lunch Club. On a population basis, lie said, this was in the vicinity of £9 2s (id a head, or, for a family of four, £3O 10s a year—lss a week for transport. This applied in a greater or lesser degree throughout New Zealand, and therefore there seemed to be some necessity for the Transport Act to bring order out of chaos in transport affairs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19453, 12 October 1937, Page 3
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