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Railway Rates. 



[may, 



panies will be willing to examine carefully this branch of the 

 subject. 



In submitting these observations for the consideration of 

 your Company, Lord Onslow desires again to acknowledge the 

 very friendly and reasonable spirit in which the General 

 Managers have met him in the matter, and to express the hope 

 that the results of the action which with their assistance he is 

 now taking may be of practical benefit to all concerned. He 

 would propose at a later date to publish, for the information of 

 Parliament and of agriculturists, this letter and any reply to it 

 with which you may favour him, 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



{Signed) T. H. Elliott, 

 The General Manager, Secretary. 

 Railway Company. 



II. 



Reply on beJuxlf of the Railway Companies to the preceding 



Circular Letter. 



Railway Clearing House, 



Seymour Street, Euston Square, 



London, 19th January, 1904. 



Sir, — The circular letter dated 28th September, 1903, 

 addressed by the Board of Agriculture to the Railway Companies 

 in Great Britain, having reference to the carriage of Agricultural 

 Produce and Requisites by railway, has received the careful 

 consideration of the various Railway Companies, and at a 

 meeting of the General Managers held here on the 15th instant 

 I was desired, as a matter of convenience, to reply on behalf of 

 the Companies generally, to the observations of the Board, as 

 follows : — 



1. Conveyance of Small Paixels of Farm and Dairy Produce. 



There are already specially low rates in operation on all 

 railways for farm and dairy produce in small quantities, as well 

 as still lower exceptional rates for larger quantities, and the, 

 Companies are of opinion that these rates, generally speaking 



