RAILWAY FARES AND FREIGHTS.
IT is suggested, says the Dunedin Star, with acceptable authority that the post, telegraph, and railway rates are to be increased in order to meet (he forthcoming substantial increases in the wages of the workers engaged in these national services. Full details are not yet available, but we have reason (o anticipate a 20 per cent, increase in railway fares and freights. Several revisions of the’ scale of railway charges, which are loaded with ancient anomalies, are promised; lap very little relief may bo expected, for a thorough overhaul of the schedule is not to be made. It seems rather hopeless to look for a decrease in general and special taxation, which imams lhal industry is to he hampered for at least another year as regards financial power l<> make extensions that have in many cases been suspended. The Government should, however, make an effort to lighten the load wherever practicable and to restore the balance by increasing the charges upon those whose profits come very easily and without acute embarrassment as regards the maintenance of industry and the securing of essential material and productive labour.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2146, 1 July 1920, Page 2
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190RAILWAY FARES AND FREIGHTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2146, 1 July 1920, Page 2
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