Report of the Road- Rail Transport Committee

Abstract

In the case of a Government Railway such as the Gold Coast Railway, we hold the· view that the well-known principle of rating according to what the traffic can hear must give way to the importance in the public interest, of charging the lowest possible rate consistent with efficient transport and the, avoidance of subsidy from taxation. The Railway rates in the Gold Coast are distinctly high, and the aim should be to reduce them, but we recognize that the possibility of reduction depends mainly on the securing of the Cocoa traffic for carriage by rail. It is moreover, impossible to estimate now with accuracy what the post-war losses of revenue on passengers and other goods traffic.