TARANAKI REQUIREMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 28 June 1913, Page 14

TARANAKI REQUIREMENTS.

LOSSES ON THE. RAILWAYS. A well-known Eltham resident supplies these answers:— 2. Returns from sale'-of products not Rati3fuct<iry in all cases* owing to want of better railway conditions. 3. Railway service unsatisfactory. The goods and passenger' traffic require separation, as much as is practicable, in running, to pay the Department and tlio public. Stock should be Iqaded in daylight, and ru.n at night—not 'as at present, loaded at night and conveyed in the burning hot sun, or in most cases loaded anil conveyed by mixed trains. The general custom is to couplo live stiick trucks behind the engine, and do all the (shunting at every station, causing stock to be bruised and knocked about, and'in some eases killed. 'I'he stock arrive in a very damaged condition. Some time'ago 1 railed two or three trucks to Waitara, and, it my memory serves mo fright, I lost about J&. ti\ totffli />i>A dA'mMKtt 'Aft.

same remarks apply to show stock .aw horses for export.' 4. More .'rural postal delivery mighit b made with advantage. Telephone ,oom • muiiication is badly needed throughou tho country districts. 7. The organisation of farmers for buj ing and selling might be improved. 5. Yes, I should think the o farms are doing well. 9. No. Farm labourers are not to b had at any price. 10. Yes. The conditions of farm labuu are perfectly satisfactory. Tho laboure generally lives with the family. 11. The pushing on with tho conjtruc tion of the Strati'ord-Ongaruo railway t connecit with the .Mnjn Trunk line wouli give access to very lino coalfields on th Stratford sido of Tanngaraka Gorg< which would cheapen coal in Taranak very considerably, and would open u; considerable commerce with Waikato an' Auckland districts. ; 'The next importan question is to convcrt. tho West Coas leases into 0.K.P., and invest the mone; with the Public Trustee. (I am in' no wa; conncctcd with the JCative leases.) Tli next is 'the Kltham-Opunake railway con struction. Still another. Where there 'i mora than one application for Crow] land 3 tho section 6hould be put lip t auction amongst the applicants. Tha would do away with dummies. The lot tery system is bad and tho tender i