ROAD RAIL COMPETITION
“RANK INJUSTICE” DENOUNCED. MANAGER’S PLEA FOR SUPPORT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. Denouncing the competition of motor lorries with railways under the present conditions as a rank injustice, Mr. H. H. Sterling, general manager of the New Zealand railways, told a deputation today that the railways could never pay while such conditions existed. If business men in tho cities and towns co-operated to support their own railway/, he said, the unfair competition would soon be removed. Railway rates were in some eases unremunerative so they were fixed to benefit the whole country. Lorries might carry goods at slightly lower rates but they could not keep going permanently. Settlers were paying rates for damage to roads and paying railway deficits. They were helping to pay something off the motor transport companies’ bills. This was a rank injustice yet the railways were expected to give the same service and show the same accounts as before the unjust competition began.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 13
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