RAILWAY TARIFF

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 6

RAILWAY TARIFF

Clikl-irni ]j ii, Xu\ '2V>. Two deputation- in in the Chamber of Com meice and the Jndu-tiial Asocial k n w a'*-ccl on the Jlon Mi Uichaul-on \otiM d iy. TJia* ii m the Chimbu ot ( 'ojnmcict iuquiicd if thtie wa-> any chance of a leduo ti.in in the tiinll tin.- w ii-uii. r ihe MinStei of l'ubiic Woik.- lcplicd that he ■uol;1<J biinj; the jnatffi befoio the Cabinet, but did not lio'd out, uim-h hoj>o. r J'iiC cleput ition c.unp'aiticd that the lailway cirnajio iate-) fiotn Ljrteiton to Chii.^tohurch weva h'^iiti than on the Poit C'halmei- and JJnnedin line-, and that in addi'-iun a chn^e of 1, (Jd pci ton ■sva- made at })ttclt'>n for liaularfo and Ijanflliiijr lauded fiutn tlie ,-tc.imci.-. Mr Kiclicrd.-on ,-aid ho would biin<r bolh irrtttci- bcfoic the Cibinet. The deputa tion iiom the Indu-ti uil A-^o(Jation olleied to d(j all in t hell f) >ucr to en -me the -uecc-'-of the Industrial Exhibit ion in Wellington in l s 6o. In an-srtcr to thif» deputation, Ah K'chaid-on ?ii\d the ( J-j\ ci unicnt would probably call for tendei.- in the colony for ten or a do/en railway engine's of a snixllcr cla-«, to be delivered in two year.-. The Government would do what they could, under rhe pie-cnt circum-tance-, to remove a lomalie- iiotn the ) ulway t.tii/1, but he thought the bc-t Kinedy \va- the manage m -ntof the lailuay,- by.iiioi -political Boaid, a rf';heino for which v a.- in picparation.