1 66 THE BOOK OF MARKET GARDENING 



In connection with the difficulties caused by the railway 

 companies having formed a "Joint Claims Committee," 

 the avowed object of which is to investigate claims for 

 loss or damage of goods, but which appears mainly con- 

 cerned in refusing all claims for the loss of articles sent 

 at owner's risk rates, market growers and others are 

 endeavouring to protect themselves from much injustice. 

 An influential Committee has been formed, known as the 

 "Joint Railway and Parliamentary Committee," of which 

 the President is Mr George Munro, Covent Garden 

 Market, London. 



A Committee presided over by Lord Jersey has also 

 investigated the subject of preferential rates given by 

 railway companies to foreign produce, and a report will 

 be issued. 



The King has appointed a Royal Commission on 

 Canals and Waterways in the United Kingdom^ and 

 much valuable information will be obtained and published 

 upon this important subject. Considerably improved 

 modes of traction are also being tried on the canals. 



The business hitherto transacted by the Advisory 

 Business Department of the Agricultural Organisation 

 Society has now been taken over by the Agricultural 

 Co-operative Federation, which has been registered 

 under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act. The 

 first-named Society now includes 10,000 members in the 

 125 affiliated Societies, with a total turn-over for the 

 past year of £250,000. 



