A PENALTY.
■ ; ♦ — SACKS OP GEAIN WEIGHING OVER ■ ' 200LB. ; ■■■■ (By TolcKraDh—Press Association.) Oamaru, February 2. Some time-ago the Eailwav Department instituted a penalty :upon those. sending sacks; of grain by rail. that weighed over 2001b. each. This was done to relieve the railway and wharf lumpers of the duty of handling heavier; sacks. The /'Norm Otago Times" has been placed in possession of facts relating to two instances in which the surcharge has been made. In both instances tho grain was railed ' to Invercargill. In the'first instance, 210 sacks were railed, and there being an excess of ljlb. tho surcharge was £35, or one shilling and fourpence per bushel. In the second, 255 sacks were railed, the excess being :31b., and M 7 ss. 9d» was charged.. The longer the railage: the more tho Department makes, and tho greater the surcharge. It .is contended; that the surcharge is excessive- and should be a fixed sum for long or short distances. In the cases under notice there was no desire to: defeat tho object of the regulations, but the excess was due to want of proper care or inefficient scales at the
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 732, 3 February 1910, Page 6
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190A PENALTY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 732, 3 February 1910, Page 6
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