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SMALL FARM PRODUCE BY ROAD.
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The Need for a More Reasonable Scale of Charges. The Freight on a Parcel of Produce often in Excess of Passenger Fare.
JJURING the past few years there has been a big _L./development in the business of growing small produce on the farms and smallholdings throughout the country and of supplying it direct to the consumers in towns. Many omnibus companies operate parcelscarrying services in conjuntion with their passenger routes. On the country services, where it is not possible to run a special parcels vehicle, parcels and packages are collected by the buses.
This is a side of the carrying trade that ought to be extended. It was a regular feature of the oia carrier's cart. Indeed, it is to-day. The bus companies do not appear to have done what they might towards its encouragement. A goods-carrying service will of tefi make possible the running of buses to country places on days and at times when otherwise it would' not be profitable to do so. What is mostly against the progress of this particular business is the Lack of anything like a uniform scale of charges.
The rates on parcels services are satisfactory enough, being about 6d. for 5 lb. up to 50 miles, 90. for 10 lb. and so on proportionately; but if a farmer desires to send a quarter-cwt. of apples, a chicken, or a few pounds of butter, or a pot of cabbages by bus for a distance of five or six miles, he is hampered by heavy transport charges—charges thati are quite out of proportion to the value of the produce and the distance it is carried.
Here is an example of an anomaly of the kind that actually exists on more than one company's service. A parcel weighing 28 lb. can be sent 30 miles foils, 3d. or 50 miles for is. 66. A box of apples or a parcel of any kind going to the farmer's nearest market town six miles away would be charged exactly the same. An actual experience which has been verified proves this to be true. In one case a basket weighing 12 lb. was carried from a farm to the town seven mils away. The charge was is. 3d. The return fare for an adult on that particular, journey is Is. 26.; and if the farmer had travelled with his basket he would have been charged nothing except his fare (1s. 2d. return). The same company would have carried the same parcel 50 miles for the Is. 3d. The fact is mentioned because much greater marketing facilities are needed or the countryside, but better terms must be offered if the business is to develop.