CARRIAGE OF SHOW STOCK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8183, 16 July 1906, Page 5

CARRIAGE OF SHOW STOCK.

A DEPUTATION TO WAIT ON THE TRAFFIC SUPERINTENDENT*.

At the meeeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association, on Saturday, a letter was receiived from the Secretary of the Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Sooiety, drawing tbe Masterton A. and P. Association's attention to the unsatiefaotory rail vay arrangements that existed with regard to the carriage of show stock. "As the conditions are at present," stated the writer, "Chttre is no refund of railway freights if one animal out£of a consignment is sold or if a pen.of fat sheep is slaughtered, as they must be, under the conditions governing some of suoh exhibits. My Committee have expressed their oonviction that these rules oould be greatly improved with benefit alike to the Railway Department and to tbe exhibitors, and they have passed the following resolution: 'That tbe Railway Department be asked to reconsider the conditiuns by which concessions on the railway freight on show stock are grantei.' The Committee now asks your support and co-operation in getting the above-mentioned regulations removed." Mr Strang, President of the Wairarapa and Bast Coast P. and A. Sooiety reported that a deputation from the Wairarapa Sooiety would wait on Mr Arthur, Railway Traffic Superintendent, in connection with the matter on July 20th. Mesrs W. Perry, Strang and Rayner were appointed a Committee to join the deputation from the Wairarapa Sooiety to meet Mr Arthur.