Railway Charges.
The following letter sent by Mr JHnnt, of Waimate, to a Dunedin firm has been banded to this paper for publication. Fruitgrowers are encouraged to Mod away fruit by having tho rates on
fruit largely reduced, and yet they are charged excessive rates when they seek to plant more trees and so increase the output of ,fruit. Tha following is the letter:— September 2nd, 1901. To Messrs Howden and Monorieff. Dkae Sirs. —The fruit trees arrived at the station all right os far ae I can see. Enclosed you will please find payment for the same. I am leaving the plants with the Railway Department to pay the carriage. Trees, straw and ah weigh exactly 41bs, for which the Railway Department charge Is 6d, or at the rate of 4£<i per tree, or £43 per ton. As the east to bring trees from Dunedin to Waimate is more than three times the carriage from Auckland by parcel poet, I must caneel the order for strawberries, as the railway charge from Dunedin to here ia so excessive that it kills everything I am, etc., J, Hunt.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 197, 3 September 1901, Page 3
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187Railway Charges. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 197, 3 September 1901, Page 3
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