A striking instance of the high railway freights charged on the New Zealand railways was revealed last week by the arrival of a consignment of goods fn Te Awamutu from the Old Country (writer the Auckland Star’s Te Awamutu correspondent). The invoices showed that transport from the centre qf England to the seaport, dock charges, and freight And all charges to Auckland, amounted to £6B 15s, while the railway freight from Auckland to Te Awamutu, a distance of IQO miles, amounted to £3l lsi Id.
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Shannon News, 5 September 1924, Page 2
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