TRANSPORT OF POULTRY
Sir, —This area must call for special treatment, apparently, as I wish to contradict the C.C.D. statement. The train service from Methven is poor, and those of us who live a few miles out, have to take birds in. have them loaded before 1 p.m., and when they don’t get in by 5 p.m, they are not unloaded till 8 a.m next day. Hence the 20 hours. Apart from the tyre situation, poultry are handled by women mostly, who have neither time nor facilities to leave their duties. It was a great relief when the road transport operated for a while? picking birds up at the gate at 8 a.m. and delivering in Christchurch in two hours’ time, with efficiency and courtesy. Why return to pre-war difficulties? — Yours, etc., MID-CANTERBURY POULTRY. Rakaia, March 13 1947 [An official of Canterbury Co-opera-tive Distributors, Ltd., who commented on an earlier letter from the same correspondent, stated yesterday that he fully agreed that the service from Methven was poor. However, the matter was beyond the powers of his company and he suggested that the correspondent and other producers in the district refer the complaint to the Railways Department or the Transport Licensing Authority, possibly in the form of a petitionil
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25134, 15 March 1947, Page 7
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