Tramways For Dairy Farmers

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 September 1950, Page 4

Tramways For Dairy Farmers

Sir—lt is indisputable to me that, generally speaking, the simplest, easiest, cheapest, most sensible and most efficient way for dairy farmers to get their filled cream-cans from the separator room to the roadside is by tramway, and so the many miles of tramlines in the streets of Wanganui may perhaps prove to be worth their weight in gold to up-to-date and progressive dairy farmers within 100 miles and they should be procurable at a fraction of their original cost. If th* cream cans are thoroughly washed and sterilised at the butter factories, as is so particularly important with such a vital food product, then there should be no need to take the cans off the farm tram-trolley at all if the tramlines are run right alongside the separator itself. Not many, if any. of the hardwood sleepers would be needed as the trarilines on the farm could perhaps be permanently set into a few concrete sleepers, giving a firjshed job that would last for several generations. Once the farmer had decided on the beet availably route he would only need to measure It carefully and then order so many chains, yards, or feet, of tramlines from the City Council, if it was agreeable to sell.- I am, etc., P.A. ELDER, Palmerston North. Sept. 3, 1950.