CARRYING FROZEN MEAT

Shannon News, 17 August 1928, Page 4

CARRYING FROZEN MEAT

! —. v'"» RAILWAY METHODS. In its fight with other transport organisations the New Zealand Railway Department is using to a very full extent the rebate system with which the -huge American trusts were largely built up. In connection with new charges that have been gazetted for the carriage of frozen meat by rail a reduction of 30 per cent, has been made in the case of frozen beef and veal, and 2jp per cent in the case of mutton, lamb ahd pork. ' ; The department is now authorised to decline the respective rebates when frozen meat is consigned by any person or firm utilising other means than the railway for the carriage of by-products, such as pelts, skins, tallow, wool, etc., from the works of such person or ilrm, wliere the railway is available for the transport of such by-products." TKe analogy between these methods and those which created America's earliest millionaires is not absolute, as the rebate made by the American railway "magnates were usually made in secret, whereas the Government openly avows its policy. ments.are being made with elands, the biggest of the world J s horned antelopes, which have proved readily tameable. In addition to high beef and milk yield, these creatures give good leather ind make splendid transport animals.