CARRIAGE OF LIME
NO RAILWAY INITIATIVE WAGONS LYING IDLE " Why the railway cannot use cattle triidks and horse wagons for the carriage of lime is more than I can say," said Mr W. Clarke* chairman of the Otago Harbour Board, at the monthly meeting last night. " I realise that the cattle trucks are kept fairly busy at the moment, but they have horse trucks lying unused all over the place. The fruit trucks and other trucks come down from Central, and they send them back empty. Why they can't put lime in them is one of the great mysteries of railroad administration to me. They think they must put lime in lime trucks." " State enterprise," said Mr J. G. Jeffery. " They should turn the railways over to private enterprise." " Half of them wouldn't run at all if they did that,", said Mr Clarke. " They would only run trains on the payable lines." 'ft was decided that the suggestion, along with one on the shipping deterioration, should be referred to the Dunedin Development Council.
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Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 8
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173CARRIAGE OF LIME Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 8
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