STATE IN BUSINESS.
PUNGENT CRITICISM. BY WELLINGTON EMPLOYERS. FULL INQUIRY ADVOCATED. (Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Wellington Employers’ Association in its annual report deals pungcntly with the question of Government and municipal interference with private enterprise. “ The Government,” it says, “shows no disposition towards curbing public trading activities which proceed apace. Rather, the Government itself is giving a lead in the matter by acquiring road transport ostensibly with the object of protecting the railways system. The question of public transport generally is one calling for urgent and fullest inquiry. Private enterprise is being taxed to unreasonable limits m order that good roads may be provided and at the same time is being required to pay the annual deficit on the railways, which is competing with* them at unremunerative prices. . . • The matter is one which must be tackled in earnest; not from the point ot view of the Railway Department, or of private enterprise engaged in motor transport, but from that of the general welfare of the Dominion as a The association has a growing wl ume of public opinion behind its protest, to which the Government cannot remain indifferent.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 5
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190STATE IN BUSINESS. Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17493, 29 August 1928, Page 5
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