BUTTER BY ROAD.
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Some interest -was taken a. few days ago in a big demonstration of the value of -motor transport by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, who employed nearly 40 of their lorries to take a, cargo of Danish butter from the Manchester Docks, at which it was landed on Easter Tuesday, to the various stores throughout Lancashire and Yorkshire. This was the first steamer load of butter from Denmark brought into the Manchester Ship Canal, and in the ordinary way the whole of the 7,090 casks would have gone forward by rail ; but 3,500 of thorn were loaded into motor lorries, and within a few hours of arrivaU 70 tons of butter were on their way, on 17 lorries, along the coast road of North Wales, destined for the societies in that part of the country.
Another score of vehicles were employed in taking supplies to the North of England, and this despatch of butter by road is probably the biggest thing of its kind_ ever done in Lancashire in connection with the disposal of dairy produce.
During the last few months the co
operative societies have extended their system of motor haulage, and in many of the smaller towns have rendered themselves practically independent of the railway for the collection of their food supplies. In this they have been encouraged by the C.W.S., who have organized their own fleet of vehicles to supplement, the facilities owned by the local societies. Not only is this the case with the headquarters at Manchester, but similar work is being developed at Newcastle, Bristol. Cardiff, and London, where depots or 'branches exist.