FREIGHTS AND FARES ON THE WANGANUI
PROTEST FROM TAUMARUNUI. (By Telegraph;— Press Association.) Taumarunui, March 20. A special meting of the Chamber of Commerce cons'dered the schedule of proposed freights and fares on the Waliganui River under the new contract, and insisted that no tender should be let which does not recognise the schedule submitted by the chamber as a maximum on the upper reaches of the river. The meeting further requested the Mayor to call a public meeting of protest, and that a deputation from the chamber should visit and interview the Prime Minister.
Yarious speakers emphasised the unfair conditions, which favoured Wanganui against Taumarunui. Wire costs 60s. per ton over 100 miles up and £4 per ton 300 miles, down. Other speakers said that the Wanganui Biver was a national highway which should be treated as a. main arterial road.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2415, 22 March 1915, Page 7
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142FREIGHTS AND FARES ON THE WANGANUI Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2415, 22 March 1915, Page 7
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