COMPETITIVE SERVICES.
Transport Authorities Criticised. Per Press Association. ROTORUA, June 13. Criticism of the action of the transport licensing authorities in the elimination of competitive services operating for the carriage of farmers’
requirements in various parts of the - county and thereby increasing freight • costs to the farmer was expressed at a i meeting of the Rotorua County Council to-day. The chairman (Mr H. P. Ford) i said that, if settlement was to be cn- j couraged, a monopoly for cartage < should not be let to two or three ser- i vices. The farmer should be able to choose the cheapest market. At , present it appeared as though freight « charges would be increased from 25s to 1 £1 a ton, which was orohibitive. It 1
was pointed out by other councillors that the operators who had been refused licenses in the Rotorua County were for feeder services operating to the railhead, and the opinion was expressed that, providing the operator* complied with the ordinary traffic regulations, there was no reason why they should not be allowed to run. It was decided that the council’s inspector should place these views before the conference of traffic inspectors to be ir» Wellington next
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 14 June 1934, Page 11
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