Humane Treatment
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Although casualties did at times occur to stock during rail transport, the Authority was convinced that the railways did everything possible to reduce these to a minimum, and dealt with stock in a meficulously humane manner.
He regarded rail and road sevices as complementary. He had formed the opinion that it was in the public interest for B-licensees in the East and North Ridings to have increased facilities for livestock transport. Farmers and stockbreeders, particularly those easiof Hull, had experienced many difficulties in getting stock to market because of a lack of adequate facilities.
Although rail services to markets as far away as St. Boswells, Scotland, and the districts around Berwick-on-Tweed were extremely good, there were districts so remote and with facilities so out of date that some further amplification of road services was necessary, the Authority considered.