He was also president of the railway rates commission, a post which he held till his death in 1932.

Iron carted across the American continent at luxurious railway rates would be valuable enough to be coined when it arrived.

Foster fought for the interest of sugar growers and supported flood-control legislation and the regulation of railway rates.

Based on his work at the North Eastern Railway Company, he published a book on railway rates.

He was called as a witness to a number of commissions on Railway Rates and before the Committee of Food Adulteration.

That resulted in an influential group of traders coming together in July 1889 and creating an organisation called the Mansion House Association on Railway Rates.

As Premier and Treasurer, he did admirable work and not only showed increasing surpluses each year, but at the same time, succeeded in reducing taxation and railway rates.

As an economist he first became widely known through his investigation of the railway question and his study of railway rates, which antedated the popular excitement as to rebates.

Following the 1888 Railway and Canal Traffic Act traders were given a right of complaint to the Board of Trade if they felt that railway rates or services were unreasonable.

Reasons why it Should be Made", argued against dock and railway rates, which were apparently levied "with the object of protecting the interests of Railway kings, [so that] trade is handicapped, and wages kept low".

In May 1908, the Orange River Colony took part in an inter-state conference which met at Pretoria and Cape Town, and determined to renew the existing customs convention and to make no alteration in railway rates.

We should enter upon a course of supervision, control, and regulation of these great corporations--a regulation which we should not fear, if necessary, to bring to the point of control of monopoly prices, just as in exceptional cases railway rates are now regulated.

He was also president of the railway rates commission, a post which he held till his death in 1932.

Iron carted across the American continent at luxurious railway rates would be valuable enough to be coined when it arrived.

Foster fought for the interest of sugar growers and supported flood-control legislation and the regulation of railway rates.

Based on his work at the North Eastern Railway Company, he published a book on railway rates.

He was called as a witness to a number of commissions on Railway Rates and before the Committee of Food Adulteration.

That resulted in an influential group of traders coming together in July 1889 and creating an organisation called the Mansion House Association on Railway Rates.

As Premier and Treasurer, he did admirable work and not only showed increasing surpluses each year, but at the same time, succeeded in reducing taxation and railway rates.

As an economist he first became widely known through his investigation of the railway question and his study of railway rates, which antedated the popular excitement as to rebates.

The act was essentially passed in recognition of the fact that a more mature approach to the regulation of railway rate making was essential to the attainment of the objects of regulation.

Following the 1888 Railway and Canal Traffic Act traders were given a right of complaint to the Board of Trade if they felt that railway rates or services were unreasonable.

Reasons why it Should be Made", argued against dock and railway rates, which were apparently levied "with the object of protecting the interests of Railway kings, [so that] trade is handicapped, and wages kept low".

In May 1908, the Orange River Colony took part in an inter-state conference which met at Pretoria and Cape Town, and determined to renew the existing customs convention and to make no alteration in railway rates.

We should enter upon a course of supervision, control, and regulation of these great corporations--a regulation which we should not fear, if necessary, to bring to the point of control of monopoly prices, just as in exceptional cases railway rates are now regulated.