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instead of a total of £3 14s\ Sd., or, in other 

 words, 1 f </. per hamper instead of Sd. ; while the 

 combined packages could be despatched from 

 Petersfield by the goods train leaving at 7. '25 in 

 the evening, and reach London in ample time 

 for delivery early the next morning, so giving 

 practically the same advantage as would be gained 

 from despatch by passenger train. There is 

 still the cost of distribution in London to be 

 reckoned. But if a little combination formed 

 by the growers at Petersfield were to join 

 with similar combinations in other districts in 

 fixing upon some one agent or representative in 

 London, who would thus be enabled to control 

 a business of substantial dimensions, it should be 

 possible to arrange for delivery in London at 

 a cost of about Id. per hamper. This would 

 increase the total cost to 2fr/. per hamper, as 

 against the Sd. paid under the existing system. 

 All that is needed to effect this result is a very 

 moderate amount of organization alike in the 

 country districts and in London. 



To a railway company the grouping into a 

 single consignment of a considerable number of 

 si 1 Kill parcels which would otherwise be handled 

 separately means a great saving of labour, not 

 alone in the matter of loading, unloading, and 

 delivery, but also in the clerical work done, and 



