TRANSPORT QUESTIONS 155 



Railway Co-operation with the A. O. S. 



Mention has already been made of the fact that Mr. Philip 

 Burtt, Assistant General Manager of the North Eastern 

 Railway Company, is chairman of the North Eastern Branch 

 of the A. O. S. and a member of the new Board of Governors. 



To show still further the practical assistance which the 

 railways are giving to the movement, it might be added that 

 Mr. G. T. Phizackerley, District Traffic Superintendent of the 

 London and North Western Railway at Chester, has been 

 appointed on the executive committee of the North Wales 

 Branch of the A. O. S., and is showing great activity in 

 promoting the movement in that part of the country. It is, 

 in fact, understood that the London and North Western 

 Railway Company are taking considerable interest in the 

 work of the Agricultural Organisation Society, that the whole 

 tendency of their policy is to encourage the formation of 

 agricultural co-operative societies, and that they have, from 

 time to time, given to their officers definite instructions — 

 recently renewed — to offer every encouragement to, and 

 every facility for, the setting up and successful operation of 

 such societies, this line of action to be taken throughout 

 the company's system. 



With direct representation of the railway companies, not 

 alone on the Board of Governors of the A. O. S. but, also, 

 on all the Branch committees which, it is suggested, should 

 eventually be formed to cover the whole of England and 

 Wales, the possibility of ensuring harmony and co-operation 

 in the mutual relations of agriculturists and the railways, to 

 the advantage of both, should be still further very materially 

 increased. 



Road Transport. 



Cost of transport by rail is, in many instances, only one of 

 two important items of expenditure in getting produce from 

 farm or small holding to market, the other being cost of 

 transport by road, either as between farm and railway 

 station or as between farm and market, the latter provided 

 that the commodities can be sent the entire distance by road. 



