Rail or Lorry Cariage?

Whether the company's produce should go by rail or lorry to Moturoa was a question asked by Mr. Dempsey at a recent meeting of Kaponga suppliers.

The chairman said that the contract specified by rail from Eltham, but they had varied the contract and allowed five tons weekly to go direct by lorry. The price, however, was the same.

Mr. Dempsey considered that the lorry might be found to be the cheaper method.

The chairman referred to the extra wear on the roads and said that a large sum of the country's money was invested in railways, which they must maintain. From the railways they received a big concession on manure freights.

Mr. Perry: If one lorry load of produce goes over a bank it would cost us the whole of the year's saving in freights.

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