Road or Rail.
Stratford Firm's Experience in Parcels Charges.

That, in many cases, charges for parcels by rail were cheaper than those of the road transport companies, was the statement made to the Stratford Evening Post by a local business man recently.

In view of this, he pointed out, the duty of local business houses in supporting the railways, and by so doing supporting themselves, was never so necessary as at the present time, when every loss made by the railways was passed on to the public in the form of extra taxation.

The following is the text of a letter which this particular firm forwarded to one Auckland business house, at the same time instructing other North Island firms in similar terms:-

We wish to draw your attention to forwarding parcel per road transport. The same parcel would have come by rail for 25 per cent less. The rates are very reasonable now by rail, and apart from that, if we would only use our railways more it would eventually relieve taxation. In future, please forward all our parcels by rail.

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