THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
RAILWAYS AND COMPETITION
It is just as well that the railway losses should be proclaimed from the housetops, for otherwise none would know that there is anything, wrong with our system, of transport, and none will seek a physician if :he thinks, he, is sound in wind and limb. The railways are sound in limb, or near enough to encourage the conviction that they will reach that state when the .improvements already commenced are carried out, but they have had tne wind knocked out of them by the most- iniquitous and unfair competition to which a public utility has ever been subjected.
This competition—motor transport—did not exist 80 years ago, and the only thing that can be said in its favotil*, from a railway point of view; is mat it has forced improvements which might just as easily have been introduced before the competition started. —Northern Criticism. ;
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1930, Page 4
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151THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1930, Page 4
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