ROAD VERSUS RAIL TRANSPORT
Au analysis of all the figures obtainable not only in this country, but abroad, shows that the average price per ton for transport by motor-vehicles is very much more tha[n the lowest prices which are charged by any considerable motor (organisation operating in New Zealand. The result of the cheap freights in some cases hais been to create an impression in the minds of the public that motor - transport is more 'economical than railway transport. This, however, is an entire fallacy. A return ot ■ 3d! a ton-mile’ on the average on the goods hauled on the railways would enable them to make a. handsome profit, but the average figures from over one thousand vehicles operating in New Zealand seem to- show that Is Ad. a ton-mile is nearer their cost, and even in the moist favourable cases, where long hauls with full loads are operated, it is in the region of Ad per ton-milo or over. —TTon. IC. S. Williams -in the Public Works Statement.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 41, 26 September 1928, Page 5
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