CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION MIS-CARRIES
THERE will be whole-hearted endorsement for the decision of the County Council to utilise its own trucks for the purpose of obliging farmers who desired to. make use of spoil Sand road metal for constructional work following the change:-over to cheese. Those who have followed the case will have seen how empty was the promise ajid how baseless the original objection of the Association when it first sought to upset this innocent arrangement of helpful cooperation by the county. Apparently not only were the carriers incapable of meeting the demand but they also failed to carry out the responsibilities to which they had pledged themselves. It would have been far better in the first instance if the organisation had passed the matter by, and not sought to gain notoriety by its officious attitude when it lacked the means and the men to carry out the work of goodwill. As it happens the position is exactly where it was in the first instance. The County trucks are performing the work; the farmers who require the metal are receiving it; and the Association has not added anything to its standing
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 162, 1 October 1941, Page 4
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191CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION MIS-CARRIES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 162, 1 October 1941, Page 4
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