MOTORS AND TRAINS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19994, 10 November 1927, Page 7

MOTORS AND TRAINS

RAIL FREIGHT QUESTION NEW SOUTH WALES LINES SYDNEY, Nov. 1. The suggestion of the New South TV ales Railway Commissioners to raise country freights is giving concern to business men at GoulburnGraziers are indignant at the suggestion that there should be aM increase of 12i per cent, in the freight on wooL Goulburn is a late shearing district, and if the change is made soon it win mean that the whole of the clip from that district will be affectai, where as wool from the early districts has already been conveyed to the city stores. Goulburn storekeepers say that if the increase in freights on foodstuffs is permitted by the Government they may revert their goods from Sydney. Some years ago, motor transport was a serious competitor with the railways in the Goulburn trade, but it was beaten off mostly owing to the fact that the railway employees refused to deal in stores which had their goods carried by motor. There are approximately 1000 railway employees at Goulburn, and an attitude of that kind on their part had a serious effect on the trade of shops which preferred motor transit for the goods.