RAILING OF HORSES.
CATTLE-TBUCKS OR HORSE-BOXES. !Replyinj-to Mr. Field, who asked that hflrses,- when being-railed,- should always be placed in proper horse-trucks, the Hon. J. A';' Millar stated in the House yesterdity:thaias a.general rule,,cattle-trucks /for, the -conveyance of horses are supplied-: at tho special request of owners who, by using. -cattle-trucks, are enabled to/get more "animals in a singlo vehicle, ■ and .thus effect a saving in freight charges-rhor'ses. in cattle-trucks being -charged at' the rate for cattle. Where .'oirn'ers order horse-boxes, tho latter are supplied 'in fulfilment of the ■ order. . So tar as the Department is concerned,'it i[ only .aware- of two or three isolated «as£s in which horses have been injured ■tvEile,in "transit in cattle-trucks, and the .Department has already incurred 'considerable expense ,in removing the original -straight'.bars■'on the majority of the open-top cattle-trucks, and substituting -archTbars; expressly'for the convenience of riorse-owiiers who prefer to use the ..«peh-tpp, cattle-trucks. '
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 8
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150RAILING OF HORSES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 8
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