Horticultural Transport Problem QOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE flower growers are faced by
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a major transport problem with the notification by British Railways that they plan to stop accepting boxes of flowers for delivery by passenger trains and instead may insist on receiving only freight wagon or train loads. The smallest van load—about 500 boxes—would be much too big for many. individual destinations, and few growers would be able to produce bulk loads of the size required.
An N.F.U. Holland branch official said last week that although 75 per cent of the Spalding district's flowers already went by road, the railway proposal raised some very serious transport problems.
New Hoveringham Company : Hoveringham Gravels Ltd. has formed a wholly owned subsidiary company, Hoveringham Stone Ltd. All the group's stone interests will be transferred to the new company. These include limestone quarries at Bradwell and Cromford. Derbyshire, producing a wide range of limestone products, and a gritstone quarry at Hayfield, Derbyshire. Mr. C. FL Wallis has been appointed managing director of the new undertaking,