CARRIAGE OF STOCK

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1932, Page 8

CARRIAGE OF STOCK

A REBATE ANOMALY

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post,")

PALMEBSTON N., This Day. Last "year the Railway Board reviewed' the scale of concessions - granted to farmers utilising the railway service for the conveyance of their stock to freezing works. This action was taken in consequence of the greater use being made of motor transport for fat lanios and sheep. According to, the decision of the board, farmers in districts remote from the railways will have their rebate stopped on account of their geographical position preventing them from using the railways, since they are unable to comply with the conditions of the concession. : At a meeting of the Feilding A. and P. Association on Friday night an anomaly was pointed out- in rthat a farmer living in the Kopane district, which is within the radius of a freezing works, can claim the rebate if he drives his sheep to the works, while a farmer living beyond Kiwit.ea cannot obtain the concession' even though he drives his sheep to the nearest works. In neither instance is railage to the works possible, yet the board's ruling favours the farmer living within ten miles of the works and penalises the one outside that radius.

It was agreed, after a free discussion, to represent the position .to .the board.