Grain Weights.
TO THE EDITOR. Pir,—We are desirous, t-hrough your valuable columns, of drawing farmers' attention jto the alteration in the railway rate of girain after the let February next, as the matter is of co .much impor*ajtM» to them. All grain after Ist February ■next, whether oars, barley, wheat, or any othen- grain or produce, should not be fiHed to a greater weight than 2001 b per sack, otherwise railage will be charged at four times the oirdiaary rat». Tb» foTegorng -regulation will JW> doubt caH for some alteration bn the oustoniß prevailing at tihe threahiinjr malls, but as the exoeas rate is so very Iveavy fcurmers iwuve ■no option but to arrange the bag-filling accoidingly. Hoping you will give this important aJ feral ion in the railway tariff th© putblicity it deserves, —We a.ne, etc., William E. Reynolds akd Co,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 22
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