CHAPTER XII 



TIMBER TRANSPORT 



THE Prime Minister in one of his recent 

 speeches referred to the excessive cost of 

 transporting timber, and suggested that the 

 utilisation of canals and other waterways 

 should receive attention. Railway rates are 

 ruinously high, the cost of delivering timber 

 and pitwood from the woodlands to the con- 

 sumer being so excessive that little or no 

 profit is left to the owner. 



Many cases could be pointed out in which, 

 in recent years, the actual cost of haulage to 

 the railway siding and cost of carriage to the 

 destination have exceeded the original price 

 that was received for the timber. 



The cost of both haulage and railway 

 transport of round home-grown timber is 

 excessively high. It is only possible, how- 



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