FREIGHT TO WHAREAMA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 865, 5 September 1881, Page 2

FREIGHT TO WHAREAMA.

[To the Editor of the Wairarapa Daily.] Sir,—l notice that your Oastlepoint correspondent, in your issue of yesterday (and on several previous occasions), asserts that it is doubtful if tho Mastevton and Tauera carriers can compate 'with those of his own district. 'I, submit that :he is writing on a question on which he knows Me or nothing, since, at any ■rate, as far as our firm is concerned, h« ii quite in the dark on the mutter, If

the Masterton carriers . cannot, at any rate we at the Tauera will compete with those at Castlepoint, too matter how often the proprietorship of tlis shipping and landing service at Cashpoint changes or what the reduction in freight and charges on wool and stores may beand . more,_ I feel quite certain, knowing th# superiority of our teams, the Casclepoint carriers would not hold out any oitra: inducement to ronholders and settlers did , ihey, not fear competition fromjus. Wefeßj* 11 " oaii deliver goods to ori from- Wellington : -; {i . I to Tinui in thirty-six hours with; ease; and ; at astchepp,; if. not (Cheaper, ratei ifi than thiy pan delivered via Castle* f point, while the wool and stores stand no j.;i •' Sanger of being damaged by salt water, or' •) sugar landed like treacle. We undertake jo deliver ivool at Wellington, cartage by deluded, 1 at a less rate and a quicker, time, than if the same were it J?> * round by Castlepoint'. We do not intern? that the Castlepoint carriers shall contend with us successfully, and we rest assured the, superiority olf theMastfitbifioute will prove itself, and that-yoiir correspondent will have to let off his • small' supply ot superfluous gas in some : other direction. If the road from Tinui to the Tauera was only (as we hope it soon ehali b'e) put in decent order, car-j riage by steamer from Castlepoint to Wellington would be the only mode of conveyance that would have : the least ohance of competing with ui, both as regards speed and cheapness. Yours, &0., Hercock & Taplik, Carriers, Carterton and .Taueru. i September 2,1881. : .. . r >'