"RANK INJUSTICE”
MOTOR COMPETITION WITH RAILWAYS ' GENERAL MANAGER’S STATEMENT (By Telegraph—Press Association) HAMILTON, This Day. Denouncing motor lorry competition with the railways under present conditions as a rank injustice, Mr 11. H. Sterling, General Manager of Railways, told a deputation that the railways could never pay while such conditions existed. He said tlint if business men in the cities and towns co-operated and supported their own railways the unfair competition would soon be removed. Railway rates in some cases were unremunerative and were so fixed to benefit the whole country. Lorries might carry goods at slightly lower rates, but could not keep going permanently. Settlers were paying rates for damage to roads and also paying railway deficits. They were helping to pay something off transport bills. That was a rank injustice. Yet the railways were expected to give the same service and show the same accounts as before the unjust competition began.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 2
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