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perishable goods along branch lines where 

 handling takes place two or three times before 

 the goods reach the market-place. Think how 

 this affects commodities like milk and straw- 

 berries, especially when one bears in mind the 

 cartage to the station at one end a.nd from the 

 station at the other. 



A good motor lorry could easily collect 

 as well as deliver goods to a market-place, or 

 to shops in a town thirty miles away, and 

 should the town be glutted with some par- 

 ticular produce, the lorry could continue its 

 career to another town. 



A well-organised telephonic system should 

 prevent produce being sent to glutted markets. 

 But the question arises : Who should own and 

 control the motor lorries, and where should 

 they be housed ? In the purely rural districts, 

 I would suggest that the county council 

 should have the control of the motors, or 

 possibly the rural district council, and they 

 might be housed where the local fire-engine is 

 housed, or in the depots where I have sug- 

 gested that agricultural implements should be 

 stored. It would, however, be easier, perhaps, 

 as far as obtaining fresh statutory powers are 

 concerned, to let the municipal authorities who 



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