SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] MONDAY, JULY 9, 1894.
Tub carriage of lircvootl on the Manawatu line is said til be cbca]ici' than on the Wairarapnrailway. We do not see why freight on this article could not be materially reduced between this district and Wellington. With a little enterprise a considerable number of unemployed could be profitably occupied in cutting up firewood on land adjacent to the line, and if a special train conveyed ut few hundred cords of it to town once a week, and burnt some of the wood itself as a motive power for carrying it along, a local industry could be promoted which Would be advantageous. to the interests of labour. • Why should not wood be burnt on railway crgincs instead of coal ? ; .
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4768, 9 July 1894, Page 2
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129SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] MONDAY, JULY 9, 1894. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4768, 9 July 1894, Page 2
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