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co-operative society, being under the impression that the 

 slaughter-house could be used by the dealers only, requested 

 the Society to approach the London and South Western 

 Railway Company with a view to the provision of similar 

 accommodation at Holsworthy station for its own members. 

 A deputation accordingly waited on the chief goods manager 

 of the railway company, who replied that the members of the 

 society were entitled to use the slaughter-house equally with 

 the traders on their making the payments fixed by a scale 

 of moderate charges, and the officer in question added that 

 if the society could make any suggestion as regarded addi- 

 tional accommodation on other parts of the line, and could 

 show that the provision of it would not involve a loss, he 

 would gladly support any such application that might be 

 made to his company. 



CLASSIFICATION OF CUCUMBERS. 



Then an important concession has recently been obtained 

 from the railway companies in an altered classification of 

 cucumbers which, though of special benefit to the Worthing 

 and District Market Growers' Association, applies to the 

 lines of all the companies connected with the English 

 Clearing House system, and is thus of far greater value than 

 a concession in the interests of Worthing only would be. 

 The Worthing Association, it might be added, was originally 

 formed mainly to enable the growers to secure the lower 

 rates offered by the London Brighton and South Coast 

 Railway on bulk consignments of grapes, tomatoes and 

 cucumbers. 



FRUIT TRANSPORT. 



In another direction the Swan wick (Hampshire) Fruit 

 Growers' Association adds to its other useful functions by 

 making known to the railway companies the needs of the 

 district with reference to the fruit traffic and by seeking to 

 bring about the general use of baskets of uniform size and 

 holding standard weights of fruit. 



