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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20500, 17 May 1938, Page 6

Free Lime Transport. —“ The position is stupid and absurd,” said Mr T. H. Langford. No. 3 Transport Licensing Authority, at Christchurch, in commenting on the free carriage of lime for the farmers by the railways during the hearing of an application for the renewal of a goods service license. Mr Langford said the cost of railing lime to farmers last year was £15,000, and ft could have been done for half the price. Price of Benzine. —“ In a riot of price-flxlna- it is claimed that this is often done to protect the consumer, but the price at which petrol has been fixed and the subsequent drop of id per gallon because of lower costs overseas, seems to me to be a direct insult to the intelligence of the consumer.” said Mr 11. O. Mellsop, president. speakinc: at the opening of the Auckland provincial conference of the Farmers’ Union in Auckland to-day. ” The profits made by a fairly new company in the petrol world, one by the way which we had hopes would cheapen the price, are well-known, and for the Minister to suggest that the reduction of Id was the best possible, in my opinion entirely discounts tlie whole statement, i cannot recall one instance where price fixing has had any effect in lowering prices: in fact in practically every case, the opposite has happened.”