FARMERS AND THE RAILWAYS.
I I (To the Editor.) j i Sir, —The farmers in this district j have risen against the strictures pass- | ed upon the producers by the General j Manager of the New Zealand Railways, ! and are breathing out threatening and j slaughter. , I have read the strictures aforesaid, and I think Mr Sterling is j to be commended, not blamed,' for j drawing pointed attention to what is j an unmoral business. 1 can see no ( juSl ground for the farmers’ indignation. If they do accept the gratuitous service and withhold their paying business from the railways then the manager’s complaint is legitimate, and the farmers’ methods of business cannot be described as ethical. I have known persons who have been financed, often : at great inconvenience and hardship, ; by local tradesmen for lengthy periods, j showing their gratitude by transferring their cash transactions to other firms often in an outside city. Thai
may to some be regarded as good and sound' business, but from my viewpoint it Is perilously near the borderline separating honesty and dishonesty. Mr Sterling, who lias a reputation for sound and straight business, apparently looks at things from a similar angle.—l am, etc., DINKUM.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17837, 9 October 1929, Page 7
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