VICTORIAN RAILWAYS
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MELBOURNE, February 3. The Minister of Railways (Mr 1. Tunnecliffe) has announced that m order to improve the financial position of the railways an increase of 5 per cent, will be made on all fares on suburban lines outside the area of tramway competition. . The Ministry takes a serious view ot the competition between the two services, and it has directed the Railway Commissioners to communicate to communicate with the Tramway Board to see whether some basis of co-ordina-tion can be reached. HEAVY FINANCIAL LOSSES. LABOR OPPOSES RETRENCHMENT (MELBOURNE, February 4. (Received February 4, at 10.30 a.m.) Speaking at Warrnambool in regard to railway retrenchment, the Premier (Mr Hogan) said the Railway Department operations and closer settlement activities had become financial catastrophes. The State was losing £1,000,000 on these activities. Motor competition was a serious thing for the railways. ...... The Trades Hall Council decided to seek a conference with the _ Parliamentary Labor Party to advise the Railways Union to hold stop-work meetings until all the men dismissed were reinstated. There is much opposition in union circles to the retrenchment proposals.
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Evening Star, Issue 19782, 4 February 1928, Page 5
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187VICTORIAN RAILWAYS Evening Star, Issue 19782, 4 February 1928, Page 5
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