THE REVOLT OF THE FRUIT GROWERS.
Thp., new movement inaugurated on Saturday, the lSlh September, by the Kentish fruit growers is staited a little late in the season, but the experience now gained may prove valuable to them next year. By a short sighted policy on the part of the railway companies, the charges for the conveyance of fruit and vegetable produce, in which the "Garden of England" abounds, are all but piohibitory. After paying railway carriage the profits made by the growers are so small as to make it hardly worth whih sendiug fruit to market, when it is plentiful, and the public suffer in turn from the limited supply, whereas an abundance of cheap food might be poured into the mettopolis if the cost of conveyance were more reasonable. We trust the experiment will succeed as much for the sake of the giowers, who are heavily h mdicapped by cheap railway rates for foreign produce, as for that of the consumers who have to bear indirectly the present heavy rates of caniage. MiMaxwell ought to road thi?.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2239, 13 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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179THE REVOLT OF THE FRUIT GROWERS. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2239, 13 November 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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