By Sea or Rail.
Where there is sea competition the railway rates have to be reduced, remarked the Prime Minister to a suggestion that differential railway rates were charged against the North Island lines. As compared to the South, the classified scale was the same in each island, except in cases where the Department had to fight against sea competition. “We cannot shift the sea 100 miles from the railway nor the railway 100 miles from the sea,” he added, “and the experience from the arguments used is that New Zealand is too near the sea.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 22, 30 November 1910, Page 4
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96By Sea or Rail. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 22, 30 November 1910, Page 4
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