Railway Management

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 150, 4 June 1885, Page 3

Railway Management

■'■■'! '(77 , "^. •■•.. ■j • • "Vfe m'a^e following extract from • better' which appear* in the Tarnnaki Herald:r-t" Being instructed to forward a valuable Jersey cow. and calf in a horsa box to Feildwg, I applied, on Tuesday lait, to tke •Ulioa : ma«t«r < i Ne w Plymouth, for a horse box at the Elliot-street Station, the cost of which he informed m« would be £33»,7d; but n» cow could be gent bf ; it, cattle being tent per c»ttle truck, at «mv« £2 15« per truck load. On my.remarkißg that prize pedigree entile were more valuable than ordinary fat or •tow *althv and to my knowledge. were «*at occasionally in horse boxes, at ownon rrqueit, at extra cost, I was informed that he (th« station-master] had no discretionary power allowed him, and h« must r-refuse. my application; but he would telegraph to the Head Office, Wanganuvand I was to call again in the afternoon. On my calling, the request was conditionally granted, there being no cattle truck* Available. It will thus be aeea that altkoagh. the gentleman acting «• the New Plymouth itation-master waa considered efficient eaougk to take charge of tao termiaus of tome :W7 miles of railway;, the said terminal being also the shipping port «f th* district, had orer whica line the English mails are distributed, as well at goods imported, yet, as •tation^naster, he had no power to supply a would-be customer witk goods then in stock, and in tke adjourning yard, withut first wiring some 100 miles for permission. . Now a word or two about the charge of £3 3s 7d. This charge is for haulage only, no food or water being supplied by by. the. department ; \n fact I asked tho question. " If . I pmt in some food would the guard be allewed to give it any sinw4«ripg,tlif day P" ; Here, again I watiiaformed thfro.iWasiap regulation |m ford* mfoedingcattle, a)od so it, must teko its chfcnee;. in. fafitito all intents nn4 pvrpofiofeikecow wai a aonentityin th« •ye< of the Railway Department. The oow »nd erff, wtishiit 4 wae flOOlbs, cost v haulage £3 3s 7d if sent in a hors«'-fbox^ oa^ k *<}rW [jifififral over the same distanc* 'ifeif shjwrji tko pjttar .jra^t ,bu*itveM knon-ledgj> possosied- -by tke- department, and thp Booaoftt >«)lftanaged by a, thorough busiBt #gi bead' the better for the. already *tWbaTienMl taxpayer.--I iamuAe j ,- : ■•;•■*.. .<;vs;-:i-iv«v.-..'1. : W v E. HuLIB. j 90W&jm*utb t May 38i 1885.' ..,- [