A SUGGDSTION FOR THE HARBOUR HOARD.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—lleing on dutv in the viciuilv of the (llasgow Wharf yestcrdav, J'did not envy the lot of a driver carting wool to the Xerebana. Slipping, scratching, sprawling, the horses kept on, load after load. Alw.it f> p.m. I. was one of several who assisted tiio man to raise a fallen horse. When everything was right, lie remarked to me, "That's the fifth time to-day I've been in t-lm same predicament. No wonder there's a drivers' strike." Now, sir, it seems to mo that a body like the Harbour Hoard—the chairman of which, we read, is, or was, a large carrier—should study these poor dumb slaves by seeing lliuf sand, gravel, or some substitute is put on when the blocks are in a greasy or slippery condition. I 'have noticed during my slay here some enormously heavy loads drawn off the wharves'. There may lie sniiie fault in Ihe method of sluicing horses; perhaps there is, but for all IbatI think the I'liorougliway should he made as safe a-< possible.—l am, ele.. A SPKCIAL November 'JG
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 9
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184A SUGGDSTION FOR THE HARBOUR HOARD. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1918, 28 November 1913, Page 9
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