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TRANSPORT TO THE MARKETS AND FAIRS.
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The Importance of the Services of Buses and the Provision of Transport for Produce in the Small Markets.
ADEPARTMENTAL Committee—the Linlithgow Committee—on the Distribution and Prices of Agricultural Produce has recommended in a final report the elimination of a number of the smaller markets in England and Wales and concentration upon the larger ones. A report issued by E.M. Stationery Office on these as well as fairs in England and Wales is taken into consideration by the committee in suggesting more co-ordination in the control and administration of all wholesale markets. The report re. views the historical and . legal foundations of these and fairs, and the statutes and regulations affecting their administration and control, and states that, since 1847, no general enactment regulating them has been made. Lack of uniformity mid the prevalence of anomalies are mentioned.
Wholesale markets are divided broadly into those in producing areas and those in consuming centres. The former are divided into (a) fruit and vegetable markets, (b) egg and poultry markets, (c) cheese and butter markets, (d) corn and provender markets, and (e) wool auctions. Markets in copsuming centres are resolved into three main classes: tra) fruit, flower and vegetable, (h) fish and poultry, and (c) those for meat.
The livestock markets, says the Journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, on account of their outstanding importance to the farming community", are considered in greater detail. The main weakness of the present system in England is said to be the unnecessary number of small separate auctions, whether for the sale of livestock, eggs, poultry or word. The suggestion is put forward that the four parties mainly concerned, namely, farmers, auctioneers, buyers and market owners, should form district committees to agree on rearrangements with a view to eliminating the smaller markets and strengthening the larger. In these days of speedy and extensive bus services linking towns and villages, say some people, the small markets serving,mien areas are not required to the same extent as formerly. Whilst agreeing that there is in many cases need for reform in the management of farmers' markets, is it not pertinent, however, to ask whether the committee has overlooked the purpose for which the small country auction exists, and has sufficient importance been attached to the value, of transport in any marketing undertaking? Large numbers of farmers are already Situated eight or ten miles from a market, and any serious reduction in the existing numbers would place a 'greater distance between them, besides adding to the manner of those people living 71 a long way from market." The object of the small market is to enable local producers to disposeof their products in small quantities. Buyers forgather and are able by buying in quantity to make up a load that pays for transport to another centre.
Provision of Traffic Facilities.
Any attempt to reform our agricultural selling system must take fully into consideration the transport requirements of each district and provision must be made to meet the needs of the man whose individual business is not large enough to justify the use of a motor lorry. The tendency with produce markets, especially those for the sale of fruit and. vegetables, is to increase in numbers. The most successful of these realize the importance of transport and see that every part of the district which the sale is intended to cover is adequately served with means for transport.
In one case especially motor haulage contractors were subsidized to the extent of £1 per lorry per day until such times that the round had become profitable without the aid of the subsidy, and in this way secured regularly supplies of produce, all fresh, that would otherwise never have reached the market. And it may be said that this market, which was established not many years ago, and the transport system together have brought prosperity to the whole neighbourhood. The advantage of the big market over the smaller cannot be disputed,' the problem being merely one of adequate road transport arrangements.