The State’s trading activities ought not to he extended ' except for special and extraordinary reasons. But it the Railwav Department were to ask authority to take up road transport a. an activity directly auxiliary to the ex isting railway system—in order to ieplace railway services than could be abandoned, or to feed continuing ser-vices-—then it is difficult to see uh the Department should not be allowed to go ahead. If the department doe. cam- its activities into the roads, i List he scrupulous to fix its rates so that its operations will show a genuine ands.etno.tont. acre over any private competitor which another private competitor could no obtain.—Christchurch ’‘Press,
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1926, Page 3
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