CARRIERS’ CONFERENCE
YEAR OF ACTIVITY PLAN FOR CO-ORDINATION (By Telegraph. —Press Association) AUCKLAND, Thursday Forty-one delegates from all parts of New Zealand attended the fifteenth annual conference of the New Zealand Carriers and Customs Agents’ Federation, which opened at Auckland to-day. The president, Mr J. H. Kirkwood, of Dunedin, presided. The annual report said the year had been one of intense activity and progress, with better organisation in the industry. An event which had the greatest effect on the town carrying industry was the decision of the Government to bring town carriers under the Transport Licensing Act. Progress had been made with instituting a standard scale of charges aad it was expected the position would be y. further rationalised. The immediate future was giving rise to some concern. The president said that Important matters for consideration at the conference were transport licensing and co-ordination between carriers and rail. The carriers favoured a coordination plan.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20785, 21 April 1939, Page 9
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