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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1922, Page 3

A well-known Dunedin .sportsman lias a personal knowledge of the anomalies which sometimes creep into the conduct of the railway service (says the “Otago Daily Times”). He decided to send four horses to the recent Oamaru races, and engaged a I’.O. truck to carry them. At the lasi moment he discovered, however, that he would he able to send only three horses to the meeting. Under the circumstances, says the Dunedin Imrse-owner, In would have been quite satisfied to pa\ on the basis of a four-horse load. T< his astonishment, however, he has now found that under the railway regulations he has to pay double rates 01 the three horses put on the train ],, other words he has to pay for tin carriage of six horses, although tin truck he had engaged would have ouh held four. As he points opt, he wqu]< have saved money had he placed an; old crock with the three racehorse: in thp U,G, truck pud given it |i rid< jo pamfD'U tvntf tytoif.