TRANSPORT OF COAL.
To the Editor. Sir, —Iq the notice published by the coal owners regarding the new boundaries fixed by them, without consulting the consumers, there appears the following extraordinary statement: — “After careful investigation the association is satisfied that consumers outside the area as it is now fixed can obtain their coal supplies cheaper by rail than by any other means of transport.” . If the association is really convinced that the above statement is correct why fix boundaries at all? They are quite unnecessary. Consumers, especially farmers, have an uncanny way of finding out the cheapest method and will quickly adopt that method, and . the coal owners would have the additional satisfaction of knowing that those consumers who did not get their supplies by rail would be ruining themselves. Probably if the association had fixed its boundaries 20 miles beyond the present ones the previously 1 mentioned statement might have been applicable. My name is' available to anyone interested.—Yours, etc.,
EX-CONSUMER. South Hillend, September 14, 1936.
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Southland Times, Issue 22998, 18 September 1936, Page 9
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