OUR PORK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2584, 5 October 1915, Page 10

OUR PORK

'ITS CARRIAGE ON THE RAILWAYS. • .••With reforenco.v to l ,>the v resolution by.tho recent Dominion Conferr eneo of .tho ' New Zealand Farmers' ■■■ Union, requesting that.ms\ilated trucks ■ - provided- with, hooks,be furnished once • per .-.ureek-'ior. the,- carriage. of,, pig, ,«aa* ■ cassesto tlio, City. raarkets,:the General • . Manager ' for Railways-writes to the "'. : "I'lavo the honour to inform yonthat, the Department's oxpericnco ..is , that " this.'.(traffic•■•is . intermittent and is ot volume ;.to. warrant i vision of such special. ivagonSj-. I would '%lso .point out that, wagons provided: with hooks'such as aro.suggested would he extravagant in , stowage, and . .that :very ssmall loads I would ••result, -.-j OV,6n • where a. considerable ■. .oficrcu. ' In this respect I,estunate;that carcasses *hanging i from Jtlie -, roof as ■ - suggested' • would, not .permit of a'.wagon being loadordinary. ,dead-rwei^ht. capacity, :and' this, I- need hardly point, outj SouJd'inake' tlie traffic an expensiveI'.1'. oho- iand; probably-iiecessitats. tho revision of the freight- rates.-. Further than this, such wagons would not bo'suitiiblo for other ordinary business, ' and tho effect would he that llioy would r hot practically •■ - set., .aside; for ; the, ■, jjigcarryirig and; r ' would only - make - one loaded trip., per £'T&ekpvliichris >no.t satisfactOfy:.ser.vice :vfrom3he"' 'of..view. .: Under,V:tlid' 'presen.t ; system of ? with ijho.traflic, •our.instractioiis: provide that »pig carcasses and other .food pro- • be.loaded .into, vehicles la which, hides and skms are being ' carried; , and I- shall ho. glad :if -you will -bring- 4 under inbtico.v' any. cases- .where, this: instruction: -is j|)Mng -disregarded.? '<