“UNFAIR COMPETITION”
RAILWAY ROAD SERVICES FARMERS’ UNION CHARGE PETROL RISE EFFECT (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. A protest against what he described as unfair competition between the railway road services and privatelyowned transport companies was made at the quarterly meeting, yesterday, of the Otago provincial council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union by Mr. James Begg. The new increase in petrol taxation weighted the scales still further against private enterprise,' as petrol used by the Government service was tax-free, he said. A motion, “That where Government services are in competition with private enterprise they should be debited with petrol taxation, so that the position may be made clear- to the public,” was carried. “People see that the railway road services are doing well and say that they can do the job better than struggling private companies,” Mr, Begg explained.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20013, 11 August 1939, Page 12
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