REJECTION OF HAY
SMALLER LOADS RECOMMENDED
The rejection of hay for shipment at Lyttelton, because of wetness, was causing the Lyttelton Harbour Board considerable concern, it was stated at the board meeting on Wednesday morning. Ip recent weeks large proportions of Consignments had been rejected on the wharf. A special committee set up by the board recommended that the hay load for trucks be reduced to four tons to afford easier and better covering, that only first-grade covers be supplied for this purpose, and that efforts be made to store rejected hay, where only small quantities were involved. Mr J. K. McAlpine, who was chairman of the committee, said that farmers wanted to get the maximum load on trucks because of railage costs, but if such heavy losses resulted it was not worth while. It was imperative that every bale of hay available should be sent to the North Island, where the drought had caused heavy inroads into supplies of stock feed.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 9
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162REJECTION OF HAY Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24895, 7 June 1946, Page 9
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