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RAILWAY METHODS.

PROTEST FROM A MERCHANT. "Tlie Department appears to be laying itself out to make things as inconvenient as possible lor the shippers of goods and ior the shipping company," said a local merchant yesterday, remarking on certain transport difficulties which he alleged tho Railway Department was needlessly putting in the way. The grievance of the complainant was in regard to a certain consignment of tallow. There were, he said, 100 casks of tallow at I'otonc, which wero to lie shipped in tho Tyser Line steamer Ncrehana, which was berthed at the Taranaki Street 'Wharf. The practice of the Railway Department for some years past had, ho added, been to bring 'such frieght into Wellington, and when there was no special rush of business to run it on to tho siding oppositeCable's old foundry. Thence the goods wero carted to the ship's side, a comparatively short distance. Under a new arrangement which the Railway Department hart made, however, tallow and such goods from Petouo had now to go to the Lambton Station, whence they had to be taken back to tho Thorndon goods shed, a distance of perhaps half a mile. In the case under notice, our informant states that the Traffic Department of tho railways agreed with the shippers of the tallow to shunt it across on to Cable's siding, but that after this arrangement had been made tho Goods Department objected to the course proposed. The specific complaint against the Department is that "red tape" or conflict between tho Traffic and Goods Departments has re-fiilt-cd in the tallow in question being brought to Lambton Station within a few hundred yards of Cable's siding and then railed back to Thorndon, whence it had to be carted by road to the Ncrehana at the Taranaki 'Uvcet Wharf. Had tho request of tlie shipper been carried out the programme would have meant that the Department would only have required to have run the trucks across tlie rnad from tho Lambton Station, to Cable's siding, and the cartage lipeossarv to land tho goods at the shin's side would tb"n have been from C.iMo's foundry to the Tnrannki Street Wharf, instead of from Thorudon Station to Taranaki Street, as was necessitated owing to the action of the Department.

THE DEPARTMENT'S EXPLANATION. •A representative of The Dominion yesterday inquired into the above at the local traflio office. He was informed that since the Government had taken over the Manawatu Railway and the . two stations had become .in a sense. : amalgamated, tho system followed had been to make the Thorndon shed the place from which goods were delivered to "Wellington consignees, and tho Lambton sheds tho centre at which goods were received from consignors. Since that arrangement had been in force, tho siding opposite Cable's factory bad not been used, or allowed to be used, in the manner suggested. It was, in the first place, too inadequate for any general use, and, in tho second, it was required many times | each day in connection with the shunt- j ing of goods consigned to and from the wharves. It would bo impossible, to '■ let trucks stand thero any length cf ' time. Tho complainant apparently wanted an exception made in his case, which could not bo done, for others would bo entitled to the same facilities, and, as stated, tho siding would not accommodate them, and could not be used for tho purpose. Tho goods were not brought right down the Lambton yards as alleged, but only far enough to enable them to be shunted on to ! tho 'ThofiicloiT lineV In tho rabsencire.fthe Traffic Superintendent from Wellington, the official could net definitely deny that permission had been given to have the siding used on this specific occasion. ''But "there was no disagreement between the goods, and tho traffic sections of the railway in regard to it. In cases where goods were consigned to vessels, they were shunted right to tho wharves. In- this case, of course, cartago was necessary to tho Taranaki Street "Wharf, to which there wero no rails. "Would it not he better .to reverse the order of things." asked the' reporter, "and make Thorndon tho receiving sheds and Lambton the distributing centre as involving cartage over a less distance from tho latter, especially to tho wharves?" 1 "No," w."P tho reply, "for the greater bulk of the cartage is to the Lambton sheds—the 'outwards' depot."

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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 8

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RAILWAY METHODS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 8

RAILWAY METHODS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1108, 22 April 1911, Page 8

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