THE GRAIN RATES.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7214, 27 November 1888, Page 5

THE GRAIN RATES.

Following is a- copy of the telegram tent to the Minister of Works re Chang* Iα railway freights on grain :— , £. Mitchelson, Minister of Public Works, Wellington. Canterbury feeling very strong against) change of ton pro sacks to ton weight In carriage grain. Kindly permit Mr Hann»y, now South, to meet our Committee and discuss proposed alteration, Aβ timer presses, would it nob be possible to suspend bringing in new tariff, say, till let January, to allow time for thorough consideration from all points, especially as carriage of cereals in lntctltn will be comparatively email 1 Please reply, and oblige. -iSigned) . . .T^ A. Kate, President of Chamber o< Commerce. Jno. Dkasts, President Agricultural and Pastoral Association. ; Jambs Gammack, Chairman Corn Ex- ; change. - Totble the following reply by telegrapli was received yesterday:— A. Kaye, Esq., and others, Ghristchurch. ! Bβ change, grain freight propose/ i change will be postponed till January 1»V I to give time for foil consideration* H. A. Atkinson. [PRESS ASSOCIATION , TELBOBAK.J WELLINGTON, November 3fc The question of the grain>«•*£»>**? nnder the consideration of the Cabinet thi* afternoon. The Government ha»a-e----tentd making any change at preeent. in the aram reenlatione in deference to the reputations of the Canterbury Cham. DwerOommeroß with a view to meeting S« wteSS of the Chamber, and aUo to Sβ estt» eluuwea now made oa SwSSdSd b««» oomplatoed of in Otago,