EXPRESS DELIVERY CHARGES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1920, Page 5

EXPRESS DELIVERY CHARGES.

CHARACTERISED AS INIQUITOUS,

GOVERNMENT ACTION URGED.

*y Telegraph.—J>ress Association, Auckland, Last Night. The Auckland Prices Investigation Tribunal has had its attention drawn to the charges being made for express delivery by. several complaints made against firms conducting that class of business. As the result of the investigations the tribunal has come to feel strongly that the whole question of express delivery should receive the earnest consideration of the Board of Trade. A report has been prepared, to be forwarded to the Board, strongly urging it to make representations to the PostmasterGeneral, with a view to the postal authorities increasing the scope of their parcel post system by the addition of an express agency.

If the Board thinks proper to make the representations outlined to the Post-master-General, the report proceeds, the tribunal, urges that Bimilar representations should be made to the General Manager of Railways with a view to his department issuing through bills of lading from the North to the South Island, and vice versa, and increasing the radius of its deliveries in all towns, thus making it possible to consign heavy parcels from Auckland to Invercargli without the assistance of private carrying firms insofar as the consignor and consignee are concerned. By the Department's increasing of the scope of their sources as indicated, a groat benefit would be conferred on all classes of the community, for many of the charges made now by express delivery firms can only be characterised as iniquitous.