ROAD TRANSPORT COSTS
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North Auckland Farmers* Protest
(By Telegraph-
WHANGAREI, Last Night. The schedule of proposed prices for jcartage and motor transport withia Whangarei County, prepared by the Whangarei Commercial Vehicular Owners' Association, was discussed in committee to-day by the sub-provincial braneh of the Farmers' Union, , the county council and the chairman of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, ;who later met the carriers in conferience. A resolution was carried that |farmers' organisations are opposed to |the fixation of road transport charges at the expense of the farmer as the ultimate payer, until such time as the principle of compensated prices for the exporting farmer, was given effeet to in a way that provides him with the means to pay these costs. It is stated that the new schedule represented an increase of 65 per cent. and was out of all reason.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 27, 16 February 1937, Page 9
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