PUKEKOHE WEST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4296, 20 August 1875, Page 3

PUKEKOHE WEST.

Oce own correspondent from I'ukekohe West ■writes saying:—

The late few fine days have quite put new life into onr Bottlers here, ploughing has .now commenced in earnest, and the settlers jire all busy getting their land ready for oat* .and potato-planting. •iWe have had a visit from our obnoxious friend, the education rate collector, this week.

Talking about planting puts me in mind of a question that has been jjui to me many times lately. It is the quest on of the carriage on manure. The freight for bonedust cosies,under class A, it not being mentioned in class B, which only include grain, potatoes, hay. straw, and chaff {pressed), flour and sharps (dead weight), coal, iron, &c., but no mention of bonedust. Xo'v as class Ais the highest rate, so have the tettlers to pay the highest freight for bonedust Surely, there must be some mistake, fc r I feel certain if that very clever manager, F. 15- Paesmore, had one sack of bonedust to ha:idle, he would tind out it was pretty dead weight, end it seems stracge to .think that wo should have more to pay for maaure than we have to pay for llour, brae, &c. I can quite corroborate Mr. Wallace's Statement about dharges per rait ill last week's IS3. e, for, in some things, the charges are mobt absurd, causing great inconvenience to the- vhole settlers along the line. Now that the titLQ weather is coming on, an excursion Sunday train, properly managed, would prove very remunerative.

l»Ve may inform our correspondent that, on the Victorian railways, the freight for manure is little more than nominal, while tarts and waggons laden with manure are permitted to paje toll-free along the highways. The market quotation for bonedust In the Herald was a printer's blunder. The figure " three" should have be<in "nine#" — fc". H.]