Pulling in Opposite Ways

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1496, 1 December 1905, Page 2

Pulling in Opposite Ways

Hallway Commissioners at Loggerheads Preu AiMoiitlon.—Copyright, Bisnit, thii day. The pnpora tabled in tho Assembly oovor. mg the conespondence in rofcrecco to the Roceptonco of tho tender of the Litbtiow Goal Association for a supply of coal to tho Westorn Enitway Sjiiom have disclosed that strained relations between the Railway Gouimiisionors exi-fced, and tbftt tor eomo months the situation was aouto. Aconrdiug to tho eorrcapoudonco, ihe oo«.1 oomraot - wis extended a few years tn the decision of tho two junior" commissioners, who acted against (be chioi so that a bettor prioo was obtained bj the Lithgow Association than was previously paid. 'The chief oommiasionor allots that his col leagues aro not, standing shoulder to shoulder with him in hir effort to protect the DepMirmut (igninst (he effflots of breaking down competition botweon irstirhile snpf.litrs; whili tho other commissioners defend their notion as being in the interfile oi thi Dopnrimint. Thepapois show that iofltend of silking by pinonnl diicuision an nuiicible settlement, tho eommissioners allowed themselves to drift apntt by embittoied correspondonci.