RAILWAY GRAIN FREIGHTS.
Tins is a subject which concerns the South rather tiian the North Island, but these rates for the carriage of grain possess a colonial interest. A practice appears to have grown up which had the effect of seriously reducing the revenue from this source. The rate was calculated SO lIUI ch a bag of 1121b, 20 such bags, of course, making a to* or 22401b. How the practice began is not known, but it has been found lately that grain was put into larger bags. A ton of grain would, therefore, be contained in few bags, and freight would be charged accordly to the fewer bags. The Government, I believe, are not to be had in this way, and insist upon the rate being charged at so much pur ton, not so much per bag.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2453, 31 March 1888, Page 2
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138RAILWAY GRAIN FREIGHTS. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2453, 31 March 1888, Page 2
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