TRANSPORT OF GRAIN
Farmers’ Concern If permission was given a transport operator to whom he bad spoken was willing to cart grain from the Hawarden district into Christchurch provided it could be unloaded expeditiously, said the chairman of the Hawarden-Waikari branch of Federated Farmers. Mr D W. C. McCormick, last evening. Three round trips could be made by motor lorries daily.
Mr McCormick said that farmers in the district were concerned at the fact that 7000 sacks of grain were now standih the paddocks through a lack of railway waggons to move them. Some of these sacks had been out now for 10 days and some of them had already been turned twice. If the weather was suitable today another 3000 sacks might be dropped in the paddocks by header harvesters. In one day to illustrate the speed of modern harvesting, Mr McCormick said. 1000 sacks had been handled off one header. Mr McCormick said that, only a few railway waggons were reaching the district and there had not been a train to Hawarden on Saturday, a day when extra labour was usually available to step up the movement of grain at this time of the year.
A transport organisation had told him that if the waggons were available it could load 3000 sacks a day.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29437, 13 February 1961, Page 10
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216TRANSPORT OF GRAIN Press, Volume C, Issue 29437, 13 February 1961, Page 10
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