FRUIT CARRIAGE
DIFFERENTIAL RATES OPPOSED AUSTRALIAN PRACTICE At the conference of nurserymen, strong exception was taken to the practice of the Railway Department in differentiating in their freight charges between fruit and vegetables carried for private use and for public sale, and a remit voicing the views of the conference was carried. Alderman Goodhew, of Goulburn,. informed a Dominion representative yesterday that there was no differential charges on the New South Wales railways on fruit and vegetables. A 301 b. half-bushed case of fruit could be sent to any station in that State for Is. The charge for one bushel was 25., and for two bushels 2s. 9d. Growers could combine and make up a truck, dividing the freight charge between them. A truck load of about 21 tons sent from Batlow to Sydney, a distance of 346 miles, would cost 3ls. per ton; for six tons the same distance the charge would be 38s. 9d. Fruit conveyed on New South Wales railways for the year ended June 30, 1927, yielded a gross revenue of l.lld. per ton per mile. Fruit trees were carried for 141 miles at 48s. sd. per ton; smaller quantities 81s. per ton; ornamental trees, 98s. lid. per ton; single packages 3s. Id. per hundredweight. Vegetables, not roots or tubers, went at perishable rates. All fruit trees, plants, fruit, and vegetables had precedence over other freight, and the Railway Commissioners did their utmost to carry out this rule.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 8
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242FRUIT CARRIAGE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 8
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