A tradesman m Invercargill is, according to a local paper, puzzled by the working of the railway tariff. He says that while goods weighing a hundredweight cost him 1b for carriage, a packet of a quarter that weight for the same distance is charged 23. He thinks seriously of advising his agents to keep on hand a hundred of bricks, or some stone ballast, or pig-iron, or something so as to bring up the weight and lessen the cost of transit.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 966, 3 December 1879, Page 2
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