FARMERS AND THE RAILWAY TRUCKS.
• The .'Railway Department (telegraphs our Auckland correspondent) has now unaor consideration .two' requests, of importance to farmers made to.it by the secretary of the Auckland executive of tho Farmers Unibn. The first is that the "local" tickets affixed totrucks should be larger in size, with more conspicuous lettering, as there is. extreme difficulty in finding any particular waggon in a lino of trucks after, dark. The second is that where small sacks are used for the carriage of chaff; more than forty should be allowed to the four-wheeled truck. Tho large sacks of chaff number forty to the ton, and' this is as large a load as a tarpaulin will conveniently cover, but in the' case of the smaller sacks, such as those, originally < used ■for the carriage of manures, as many as 'sixty may be required to the ton of chaff, but; at present a ton of chaff'in the smaller sacks cannot be,loaded into .the one truck.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 286, 27 August 1908, Page 3
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