CARRIAGE OF LIME.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19308, 8 October 1932, Page 16

CARRIAGE OF LIME.

Regulation 91 of the N.Z. Railway Department’s “General Scale of Charges’’ states inter alia:—

(a) “New Zealand lime for use in dressing land used bona fide as a farm, may, at the option and convenience of the Department be carried by rail for distances not exceeding 100 miles free of charge.”

(b) “The Department may decline to extend the benefit of the Regulation to any farmer who utilises other means of transport than the railway for the carriage of other goods to and from his farm when the railway is available for the transport of such goods.”

This regulation has been in existence for many years and not put into force; but owing to some farmers, who had ordered lime, having given some of their carting of produce to motor lorries, the Railway Board has recently decided to enforce the provisions of the above extracts from the regulations more strictly. In other words, the Railway Board has decided that if the purchaser of the lime does not use the railways in preference to other transport for the his produce, he will be liable to be charged the full freight on his lime.