2i8 TRANSPORT QUESTIONS 



milk-tank waggons between Denmark and Berlin, the 

 waggons being taken across from Laaland to the coast 

 of Germany on the steam ferry, and thence going 

 express to Berlin. Each waggon conveys two large 

 tanks lined with tin, and each tank holds 1,100 gallons 

 of milk. The service started on October I, 1905, when 

 it was expected that about 13,500 gallons a day would 

 be carried by means of these tanks. 



Concerning fruit traffic, Mr. Vincent W. Hill, general 

 manager of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway 

 Company, who bring very large quantities of fruit from 

 Kent, showed in the evidence he gave before the 

 Departmental Committee on Railway Rates for Agricul- 

 tural Produce that the carriage of fruit over the entire 

 system of his company works out at one-tenth of 

 a penny per pound for passenger-train traffic, and one- 

 twelfth of a penny per pound for goods-train traffic. 

 These figures would represent a comparatively short 

 mileage; but another witness before the same com- 

 mittee, Mr. J. E. Hennell, assistant goods manager of 

 the Great Western Railway, stated that on his com- 

 pany's system the cost of a parcel of twenty-four 

 pounds of fruit sent by passenger train the dearest 

 form of transit a distance of 200 miles came to 

 one halfpenny per pound. If 5 cwt. were sent the 

 same distance, and also by passenger train, the cost 

 per pound would be one-third of a penny, and if 

 10 cwt. were sent the cost would be three-tenths of a 

 penny per pound. 



' I think,' Mr. Thomas Russell, a Glasgow fruit 

 merchant, told this same committee, ' the railways 

 cannot do the thing much cheaper than they are doing 

 it now.' ' Taking one season with another,' said Mr. 

 John Idiens, who represented the National Fruit 

 Growers' Federation before the Departmental Com- 



