CARRIAGE OF GOODS ON THE RAILWAYS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 3

CARRIAGE OF GOODS ON THE RAILWAYS.

THE NEW SYSTEM

! —— "° j The Railway Department has issued a ' h I poster setting forth the days and times I S for receiving goods at Christchurch 0 and Timaru for forwarding to tho n smaller stations under tho new system 5 which comes into operation on Monday. • v , For the Cass, Dunsandel, Hawarden, .. Orari, Springfield. Temuka, and "Wai--1 kari, goods will bo received three times •> a week at tho Christchurch station, ! and for all other smaller places, will bo • received two days a week. Perishable - , and full trucks of nil classes will ho >. ; received duly, excepting for View Hi" 3 and Bexley, in which cases they will bo o received only on the days spe'eified in s th time-table. If. a receiving day falls jon a day when tho goods sheds aro . | closed, goods will Ik> received on tbo , following day. Goods from intermed- . : late, stations will, a.s far as possible, bo ' . , despatched so as to reach ■ their des-1 . : tmation at the snmo time as goods . : from tho main centres, and wiil be held jon hand at the forwarding stations, if | necessary, so as to bo forwarded to corj respond with the despatch from t 7 >o j main centre. Goods for the main oenj tres may be hold by the forwarding I station up to 24 hours, in to fo- ! cure a better load if possible. Goods iex ship at Lyttelton or Timaru, for i country stations, will be dealt with at Christchurch snd Timaru ir. the same way as <roods delivered at those sta- I tions. The posters contain n complete I list of the r--t.iti.-)t lK . and th© day's poods ! will ]a> received for tno«o stations will j he r.oytod nn in corspicuous places for 1 , the information of the public.