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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 2 (June 1, 1929.)

Secondary Industries

Secondary Industries.

With almost £5,000,000 spent annually in the wages of railway employees, it is clear that those engaged in secondary industries are definitely gainers by the assured spending power of railway employees. It is to their direct interest, in view of the fact that the railways are an essential industry, to give adequate support to the railways in the way of placing their freight business with the national concern in preference to passing it over, as some of them do at times, to uneconomically operating, and unessential competitors.