OAMARU NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 12164, 7 April 1904, Page 6

OAMARU NOTES

[By Our Owk Correspondent.]

OAMARU, April 6. At the meeting of the Committee of the North, Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association this afternoon a letter was Bead from the Minister of Railways m reply to the Committers protest against the by-law recently gazetted regulating the -weight <rf grain to be carried by rail in any one sack. Sir J. G. Ward wrote that tie by-law had been made " in response to repeated repre. sentations as to the injuries sustained by laborers engaged in handling sacks of grain of 2401b and over—representations which were strongly supported by the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association." He recalls the fact that the bylaw had been adopted only after lonjf and serious consideration, and that of the Chambers of Commerce, Farmers' Unions and crabs and leading grain merchants to whom the question wag submitted an almost general approval of the proposal to make 200Tb the maximum weight was expressed by those who favored him with their views. The Committee, by simply minuting the letter as " received," surrendered the point, and, it mast be concluded, accetped the decision as final.