Reciprocity on the Railways.

An important disclosure in Parliament when the Financial Statement was recently presented should receive a considerable amount of regard by sheep-farmers and others who are preparing for the despatch of their produce during the coming season says the Rangitikei “Advocate.” We refer to the concessions granted by the Railways Department in the freights on fertilisers. Since the reduction in freight on this important farming material was introduced, the benefits directly presented to farmers amount to many thousands of pounds. Although the country generally benefits by this concession in the shape of increased exports, it is to be hoped that the settlers will not forget that they owe to the Railways Department some measure of reciprocity and that when consigning their wool and other produce they will patronise the railways—their own railways—where services exist.