TRUCKS FOR STOCK SALES.
THE TAUMARUNUI CASE.
[BI TELEGBAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
WELLINGTON, Friday.
" Taumarunui is asking for more sheep trucks than thero are in the Nortlh Island
altogether if this message is correct," said the traffic manager of the New Zealand
Railways, when asked if the department had any comment to make on a telegraphic message that Taumarunui farmers were indignant at not being able to se cure 1100 trucks for the fat lamb sales.
"There is an obvious mistake somewhere," he added, " as there are only 1071 sheep trucks in the North Island railway system. We are doing everything we can to meet the demand, keeping in mind the necessity to give preference to fat lambs as far as practicable, as they are more perishable than store sheep. There is always the liability to fall behind when circumstances arc favourable and lambs are coming in. At the present time they are apt, if the selling movement continues, to cause something of a glut in trucks."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 10
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