TALLYING WOOL.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 53, 2 September 1895, Page 2

TALLYING WOOL.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir— The railway officials led the merchants' deputation on a false aoent by declaring that the Harbour Board sheds were similar to private sidings. Thia is incorreot ; they are not private sidings, and oannot be legally treated so under any by-laws. In the lists of the annual report they aro not shown as private sidings. Under statute Government has oertiin special rights over tho Board's property to lay lines, and the Government laid down its lines and sidings as a part of tbe station. To suit the railways the Board built the sheds, whioh to all intenta and purposes are public railway sheds. Under ita regnlationa the railway may require owners to do their own loading or unloading, but they have no obarge gazetted for tallying, and oannot at present legally charge for it. They misrepresent matters in pretending that they have to do here what is done at private sidings elsewhere ; tho oases aro not analogous, and tbe Board should resist the unfair advantage whioh is being taken of the lapße of time to throw ovor the mutual arrangements originally oome to between the Government and the Board. I am, &c, Onj* Who Knows. 24th August, 1895.