"THE SNAIL SERVICE."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14129, 29 May 1920, Page 5

"THE SNAIL SERVICE."

TRUITGROWERS’ COMPLAINT.

RAILWAY MANAGER TO BE

INTERVIEWED

•At the conference of the New ZeaFruitgrowers’ Federation at Wellington yesterday /very strong complaint was mtde of the delay in conveying fruit on the railways. Tho po--sition, as expressed by one delegate, -was (like the fruit at the end of the journey) ‘‘simply rotten,” as invariably it had taken**]! week for fruit to .ret from Nelson to New Plymouth, and more than a fortnight in carriage from Nelson to Dunedin. It was stated by another delegate that four days previous to his leaving -Central Otago for Wellington, he dispatched apples to Wellington, and up to yesterday the cases had failed to reach ybfjj- destination. 4 That it took nine days for pears to reach Wellington from Greytown, only •a distance of 50 miles, was the complaint of another grower; while others the railway authorities put frui«n the slowest trams they could was further contended that the railway authorities extended no assistance to those engaged in the fruit industry. The result of the “snail ser•vice’’ meant a serious loss to the pro•ducejrs of fruit. Aik a result of the discussion it was -decided to set up a transport committee, to wait on Mr MeVilJy, the General Manager of Railways.