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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 622, 1 May 1878, Page 2

■ I ' ,:lrt - i Yr.sTr.inuv morning a bxrge number of • truck-! I:i>l'.-h with grain belonging to various " merchants in this' town wen; on the Har- ' hour lii.anl line when the heavy downpour ~f rain occurred. These trudts were mi-| covered, and t!ie lines of grain exposed, the! result being that the hitter got wet. Later in tiie day .1 number of trucks containing.' .'rain arrived from the north uncovered and soddened with the rain which had fallen so copiously. These were put in the goods .-hid ami engine-room, in order that the moisture might either evaporate or become absorbed by the grain, b fore the trucks - were put upon the Harbour Board line to be unloaded by those to whom the grain was consigned. Tin's i.-. decidedly wrong on ' the pait°of somebody. Wo can scarcely •■■ b-lieve that Mr. Loi.-ixt; is oblivion* of the v e.-,e.-sitv for prelecting tlie grain from ino! 1 !c!iient" weather. Jt would be innoli more reasonable to suspect that lie has not the . appliances to eii-ibb- him to do so. Whoever i-i to blame has not a lifctlfi to answer for. •(.b..byis ignorant enough to suppose that " taekiiig grain, after it lias been exposed t-i '" soaking rain, is calculated to conduce to its '' . xe- Hence : and yet it cannot su-elv be ex--11 p.-cted by the raiiway authorities that nier- '" chant* can go to the trouble and expense of '1 ! thoroughly drying the bags_ of grain before ill-hi.y are "stored away. Willi them at this t -.a-oii all is aniuiatioii, and thev li ive mily V I time to attend t- the ordinary fin ctiotis of ',. I their business. Kvery ehmild be 1 ro,f I \ i.leil with a cover, which should be ivdy ! 1:1 ease of wet w. atlur ; end t-'iat such h.i< '' I >,..t been .!■• e is ,',u ■ to eitiier pirsiniony or ''"',■ -i 1.-.-sne-s on tie- |m!" ■■:' iln- <!■ .vernm ■•nr. '" ! i.l- the of idU i > - W" • go fU f *' i ;h.-r. ami sav th-ir. not i :,lv sli..u!d tiuck- '•" ; f grain be t'.Vere I d.!:' n.J wet xieatlmr. but «• ' .-d.-i that t:-it ks of g.iin 11.. o .-1. engine, •riu-irliin tie- re..eh of tlie etni--s ; ons ,t iln.l I fuin-.e', .should be e v reil. We are s.itisti. d d -hat Mr. UvK, v.ho lei- ellivg- ■■( this .-ee,|'m..ii of the Hue. will :-<-o tha 4 iln- evil i- ,, emedie.l uh-n made aw.ire of it- exi-tei.ce.