The Railway Rates Again.
(p^ITBD. JPBESB ASpopiAa:ipN,V A!t 5 ! the iS&'thland -CJJn'IV tbbil^l t roteeing to-day it was resolved, That this council seriously .draws tire attention of the Minister for public Works to the extraordinary^ existing through the late alteration m the railway goods tariff, whereby towns on tlie railway botweeu Gore tuiA^lijv»;rcar};ill are now payi.ngf?-3ouble---'*t|ie* I<ft|tes1 < ft|tes from -Dunedin, which arS uuder the new rates 1 charged fo* the whole distaucet-as, for /instance, goods '".going '■"■ ihrotrsrh the (Whole dißtaiipeil.^ ; inrleß. ?: ' : a)tj*' r .i;l»nrged £l 5s 6.1 per ton ;- n'hereatt for/places short of liive^cargiile the vi-rtres.'iii the siiwe class, "kre i exact ly^doul>le.'V The council \v6iildirepreßent.:thj[\t' v Uy the new tllo Railwsiy Departnieut will a great-deal extra- qHfryiTag to do, as consignees will find it cheaper to get Vtlicir goods, corisigi^ed all thl'pu^h and fe-booki'd alc)iJi; the Hue X.atgl, that the hi^h rates will cause a'greatancrease of "tmftic on ihc coutittiy rbttdgj and thereby the biirdeu of the rateoayers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1483, 17 October 1885, Page 2
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159The Railway Rates Again. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1483, 17 October 1885, Page 2
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