CARRIERS' FEDERATION
CONFERENCE OPENED ISSUES FOR DELEGATES (Per Press Association,) AUCKLAND, this day. Forty-one delegates from all parts of New Zealand attended the fifteenth annual conference of the New Zealand Carriers' and Customs Agents' federation which opened m Auckland to-day. The president, Mr. J. H. Kirkwood, Dunedin, presided. The annual report paid the year had been one of intense activity and progress and better organisation in tnc industry. An event which had the greatest effect on the town carrying industry was the decision of the Government to bring town carriers under the Transport Licensing Act. Progress had been made on instituting a standard scale of charges and it was expected that the position would be further rationalised. The immediate future was giving rise to some concern.
The president said that important matters (for consideration at the conference were transport licensing and co-ordination between carriers and the railway. Carriers favoured the coordinated plan.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19918, 21 April 1939, Page 7
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152CARRIERS' FEDERATION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19918, 21 April 1939, Page 7
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