TRACTION ENGINE TRAFFIC.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12900, 10 February 1906, Page 6

TRACTION ENGINE TRAFFIC.

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on this, traffic would be just as well to know if there are any benefits derived irom. ite - Cne of~ the .pMcipal _ m ' such traffic is -that' it increases producing power-of- : t«6 '&nneif; inasmutili m tire time : tie; griyiii hauled by tractiooj' is pofc- intp-Kworkmg the! land in tiie proper season, whilst * inaa who has many days' Parting with his teams is all hi 3 next season's crop,vrhich means a" l ess yield per acre than if his teams remained all the while on the land getting in .the; crop :in ite r ,,proper season, regards tKe "wool haulage, tlio material •BMP srnrely known to those, who are having the work done. Xthere are verv few farmers or station owners who, having once Tused traction, haulage, would care to go back to ordinary dray traffic. = As for damaging the roads, that matter can be remedied by fair and proper bya copy of which should be, carried »y-all parties engaged in the work. ! The Timaru Borough Council have taken a step-in the right- direction by getting a thoroughly up-to-date plant for carting metel and forming.,-^sr;-that will be a redit alike to the Council and the town in general.

Hoping that this subject -will he properly threshed out, 1 'am,'etc.;' OXE INTERESTED.