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as many of the eggs will have come from 

 different parts of Western Siberia, and may 

 already have been seven or fourteen days on the 

 journey before reaching the port of embarkation, 

 something must be added to the said 3*. in 

 respect to land freight. From September to 

 March the firm receive about 10,000 cases weekly, 

 despatched overland from Lemberg (Galicia) or 

 other collecting points, whence they are brought 

 to London via the Thames or Harwich. In 

 addition to the supplies coming to London in 

 such quantities as these, very large consignments 

 go from Hamburg to north-eastern ports for con- 

 sumption or use in the northern counties. Special 

 trains made up at Lemberg will run through 

 to Hamburg in seventy-five hours, and since the 

 month of September, 1902, a similar train has 

 been started daily at Podwoloczyska, a station on 

 the Russo-Rumanian frontier, to take eggs and 

 other produce to either Hamburg or Bremen. 

 The train will consist of about 30 waggons, each 

 holding 10 tons, and while some of the eggs are 

 destined for consumption in Germany, the bulk 

 of them will come on to England. The freight 

 from Galicia to London or to a north-eastern 

 port works out at 9s. a case, based on the 10-ton 

 rate, and the time occupied in the transit is 

 about eight days, 

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