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RAILWAY GOODS TKAFF1C.
To tlie Editor.
Sir— \- ill you allow us space to call at
tention to tlie unsatisfactory manner in
which the firewood traffic is carried out by
thp raihvnv authorities? A few wppIcs
incc we received a number of loaded
rucks at North Adelaide Station Iron*
rhich we weighed contents of four on a
itensed weighbridge, which proved 4 to
cwt. each ehort of the weight on advice
lotes. We wrote to the party that sent
he wood. He replied that he was not
espousible, as tho Government weighed
lie trucks. The carter sent for the wood
ias to sign tlie delivery book, thus making
is responsible for a weight we don't re
eivc and have to pay io-r. No oppor
unity of weighing the trucks is afforded at
forth Adelaide Station, as no weighbridge
3 provided. Uealers and others, we are
ssured, would willingly pay a small fee
»r weighing 'at the station. Repeated ap
ilkation lias been made that the siding
n which trucks are shunted should be
lose fenced, for the protection of private
iroperty, as no night watchman is provid
d. A sltort time since the Hindmarsh
iolice brought us a notice to attend the
tate Children's Department, when a small
ioy was charged with having a perarnbu
?tor tilled ivith wood close u- the station,
rhich the boy stated he had picked up!
Ve are assured that the Hindmarsh police
se efforts to stop the pilfering that goes
n, but they cannot be expected to act
s nijrht watchmen. The distance between
lorth Adelaide Station and the centre ot
forth Adelaide is under a mile, yet tor
he want of telegraph or telephone 'com
lunication, if .a'truck of goods arrives at
lie station, say, on Friday, advice note is
osled to Adelaide, being delivered at its
estimation on Saturday, and the truck on
lie siding alongside a public road until
he following Monday! Yet often the
or.tents of the trucks 'are urgently re
uired.
We are, Sir. Ac.,
BLEECHMORE & CO.
North Adelaide. November 27.
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