Ashbubxo-T Oats for TnE CAr c. — Yesterday Messrs. Saunders Bros, despatched from their mill, in execution of a shipping order for the Cape, 21,000 bushels of oats. Tnis large line was loaded in a little less than 15 working hours, and practically proves the material benefit of our railway system to a large establishment like the Ashburton mails, where every advautage is taken of situation and close proximity to the main line. Fifteen years ago Mr. J. B unt carted his produce to Christchurch, three dayß being occupied by the trip down. Allowing another day to reach Lyttelton, it would have taken our genial friend about three years and a-half with a daay and threo hones to remove the oats we have referred to, or a month with thirty drays and ninety horses. •'Ashburton Qaardian-
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 39, 14 January 1881, Page 2
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135Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 39, 14 January 1881, Page 2
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