BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Vol. XI. No. 2. 



MAY, 1904. [NEW SERIES,] 



RAILWAY RATES FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries consider it desirable 

 to give publicity to the following correspondence which has 

 passed between them and the Railway Companies in Great 

 Britain, as to the carriage by rail of agricultural produce and 

 requisites, together with a copy of the minute appointing a 

 Departmental Committee to enquire into Railway Rates for 

 foreign and Colonial agricultural produce."* 



I. 



Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to Railway Companies in 



Great Britain. 



Board of Agriculture, 4, Whitehall Place, 

 London, S.W., 



28th September, 1903. 



Sir, — I am directed by the President of the Board of Agri- 

 culture to inform you that since his appointment to office he has 

 been giving his attention to the general subject of the existing 

 facilities and charges for the conveyance of agricultural 

 requisites and agricultural produce. The necessity of improve- 

 ment in these respects has been pressed upon Lord Onslow in 

 many directions, and the question is undoubtedly regarded as 

 being one of great importance to the prosperity of the, rural 

 districts at the present time. 



In these circumstances Lord Onslow felt that it would 

 probably be of advantage both to those in whose service he is 

 engaged, and to the Railway Companies, if he could have an 

 opportunity of personal conference with the General Managers 

 of the leading lines, in order that he might learn, in the first 



* This correspondence, with appendices showing the facilities at present offered by 

 Railway Companies for the conveyance of agricultural produce at reduced rates, has 

 now been published as a Parliamentary Paper. [Cd. 2045.] Price iod. 



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