RAILWAY MISMANAGEMENT.
From all parts of the colony come complaints of railway mismanagement. Says the Waikato correspondent of the New Zealand Herald: —What prohibitive railway charges are doing to obstruct the profitable settlement of country districts and discourage cultivation, was never better exemplified than m the case of an order sent from an Auckland dairy establishment to Mr John Kun.ciman,' 6? Broadmeadows, for 130 tons of carrots. : At , the price obtainable for them, the railway char- 1 ges just eat up the margin of profit; on production. The grower; would;' have been content to have shared the present cost of freight with the railway as his share of the transaction, but scarcely sees the advantage of growing carrots to supply freight to the railway for the mere fun of ■the thing. The freight is 13s per ton from th£ Fancourt station, and the half of this per ton would have satisfied the^ grower, but the railway takes it all. As a consequence the farmers growr no carrots another year, and the railway loses thefreight of what they might have grown, while the land remains idle, or is thrown into grass, and the Auckland consumer has to pay more for- his carrots 0r,40 without. f>j
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 16, 17 June 1885, Page 2
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204RAILWAY MISMANAGEMENT. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 16, 17 June 1885, Page 2
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