THE RAILWAY TARIFF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19346, 27 June 1925, Page 5

THE RAILWAY TARIFF

EARLY COMPLAINING STATEMENT BY MINISTER ALL TO GET A FAIR HEARING (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 26. Replying to Mr Smith (Taranaki), in i the House of Representatives yesterday, I Al r Coates said the position so far as the revised railway tariff was concerned was this: The Railway Board was i asked to draft a tariff which would meet the economic and industrial requirements of the Dominion and yet at the same time provide sufficient revenue to cover overhead expenses and interest charges. The Board had drafted that tariff without reference to the j Government. The details of the tariff i had been issued to the commercial and I industrial bodies interested and those bodies would discuss with the Board | the effect of these proposals. When an agreement was reached these points would be fixed. Where there was no agreement the points in dispute would be referred to the Government when a decision would be arrived at. The tariff would not come into operation until these discussions had taken place, so that there was no immediate necessity for any section of the community to cry out about hardship as the result of the proposed tar ill*.