RAILWAY FREIGHTS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 21 November 1930, Page 10

RAILWAY FREIGHTS.

INCREASE NOT GENERAL. {FRZS3 ASSOCIATION TELXOBAJt.J WELLINGTON November 20. It is not intended to increase the freight rates on the higher rated classes ol railway traffic such as general merchandise goods, according to a statement made by the Minister for Railways to-day. Mr Veiteh said he desired to correct an erroneous impression which had apparently been created in the minds of some in respect of the incidence of the increased rates which were brought into effect last Monday in accordance with the recommendations of the Railways Commission The lioyal Commission which had been set up to investigate the working ol the railways had recommended increases in the rates on certain classes of low-rated traffic such as shingle, chaff, firewood, cereals, bricks, cement, and similar bulk commodities, and the findings of the Commission had been <nven effect to in the new scale of rates accordingly. It was not the intention that the increased rates would apply to the higher rated classes of traffic. Mr Veitch said he desired to correct the idea that had apparently gone abroad that the general increase in rates would be applicable to all classes of traffic.