THE MANAWATU RAILWAY
UNDER GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT.
SERIOUS COMPLAINTS FROM THE PUBLIC.
[Special to “Times.”]
WELLINGTON, Dec. 23
Recently there were complaints from the country about the altered rates on the Manawatu railway’ directly it became a State owned concern. It appears now that the city is also suffering, A paragraph in tonight’s “Post” says: '“Complaints are being made regarding; the transit of goods on the Manawatu section of the Government railways. A leading firm of auctioneers in the city states that, since the Government took over the line from the Company, it and others have been put to great inconvenience, owing to delay in the forwarding of fruit and vegetables from the country districts.. The company, it says, made a point- of rushing perishable freight into the city, hut unfortunately there has been' a departure from that practice under the State regime. The firm have given us an instance of the dolavs which -are occurring on the section. On Monday last a quantity of fruit and vegetables was sent from Waikanae, but it only reached the city to-day.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2382, 24 December 1908, Page 4
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178THE MANAWATU RAILWAY Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2382, 24 December 1908, Page 4
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