SHORTAGE OF RAIL WAGONS CAUSES FARMING PROBLEMS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Urgent representations are being made by the Wairarapa provincial executive of the Federated Farmers to the national headquarters of the organisation over difficulties caused by the shortage of railway rolling stock. The Wairarapa farmers have complained that by direction of the Aid to Britain Committee priority in rail transport was being given to fat sheep. The farmers ask for an adjustment to improve the movement of store sheep and claim that it is imperative to make the utmost effort to get sheep to better pastures because of the drought conditions. Farmers emphasise that stores are producers of next year’s lambs. A further allegation is that because of the shortage of rail transport there have been delays in consigning purchases of sheep to other districts and that at the Eketahuna sale, buyers from other districts did not operate because they knew they could not get railway wagons.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1948, Page 6
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