RAILING PERISHABLE GOODS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1069, 7 March 1911, Page 8

RAILING PERISHABLE GOODS.

HOW BUTTER A,ND CHEESE PAKE. Last week there appeared in Tnr. Dominion an account of how the materials' for some choese crates toot over a.week to go 53 miles (from Carterton to Woodyille) anil how in consequence a quantity of cheese missed the steamer for South Africa. A Wellington merchant, after referring to the matter, said, in conversation with a Dominion representative, that the question of the carnage of perishable goeds on the New Zealand railways was ono which needed a thorough investigation. The present system he had fonud to bo faulty and unreliable, and he declared that it was not in the interests of the dairying industry that such a condition of affairs should be allowed to' continue. On that account he hoped something would be done to improve the service before the beginning of the next dairying 6eason. ' One thing in particular he mentioned was that dairy produco had been railed in canvas-covered trucks. These trucks aro the kind which are used on holiday occasions for passengers after the ordinary passenger cars are all taken up, but they are not suited to tho conveyance of esport butter or cheese. The type of car specially built for the carriage of perishable articles, and used for conveying dairy produce, are said to be too few to cope with the quantity of goods to bo handled.

A well-known Taranoki Jersey breeder, Jfr. Charles Clarke, was farewelled at New Plymouth last week. Mr. Clarke had been for a number of years licensee of the White Hart Hotel, and his Jersey herd was kept at the farm, a few miles out. • . ■ •