TE AWAMUTU NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1441, 27 September 1881, Page 2

TE AWAMUTU NEWS.

Railway Charges. Great complaints are made of the burden of the railway charges for the carriage of all descriptions of goods from Auckland to these parts. In some cases it amounts to as much as the freight from England to Auckland. The charge for bonebust, for instance, just at present when the use of it- is indispensibie, is a severe addition to the expenses of the farmer. For ( a quantity not less than four tons the charge is 17« 4d. per ton, ( while, for, a single ton it is 255. In sending potatoes riway during the Jast season, the orerchargesfor,. railway carriage have reduced the profits 1 of the growers to wonderfully microscopical dimensions. It is generally considered tbat 10s per ton would be an amply/ sufficient "charge fpr ! tiie carriage of potatoes, ■ but in'faot it is sftmethinglike 50 per cent' more. »Eail■fray cojtnpaniea ' 'always acknowledge i the impropriety, in T a business- sense, of emba'rrasinggood ctislomers 'by exorbitant charge's,' 'but GoVernment<6ffioialß steem'to rejoice in such blundering motes/. Thei '^eo^ie f cfe'J'afi f^attary always hadajsoul aboye 'baflineßS,— (Sept, 26tb; ■ • <