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bound to specify in the rate books kept at the ports in the 

 United Kingdom which they use the proportion of any through 

 rate appropriated to conveyance by sea, and that these books 

 can be inspected by any person during all reasonable hours 

 without the payment of a fee. 



"With regard to the other points on which Mr. Hanbury 

 desires information, I am to point out that, under the provisions 

 of Sub-section (2) of Section 27 of the Railway and Canal Traffic 

 Act, 1888, no railway company may make any difference in the 

 tolls, rates, or charges made for, or any difference in the treat- 

 ment of, home and foreign merchandise for the same or similar 

 services ; and I am to add that the Board of Trade have no 

 knowledge of any such arrangements between railway and 

 canal companies as are referred to in your letter. 

 " I am, Sir, 



" Your obedient servant, 

 " (Signed.) Francis J. Hopwood." 



Ill, 



From the Secretary, Board of Agriculture, to Richard Lewis, 

 Esq., Hon. Secretary, Hall and District Fruit Buyers* 

 Association. 



" 14/// August, 1902. 



" SIR, — I am directed by the Board of Agriculture to advert 

 to your letter of May 9th last, and to say that they have 

 been in communication with the Board of Trade upon the 

 subjects referred to therein, and in the subsequent interview 

 which took place between an Inspector of this Board and a 

 member of your Association. 



" With regard to the alleged preferential treatment by railway 

 companies of consignments of fruit and vegetables despatched 

 from the Continent, via Hull, to inland towns in this country, 

 the Board are informed that, under Section 27, Sub-section 2 of 

 the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888, no railway company 

 may make any difference in the tolls, rates, or charges made 

 for, or any difference in the treatment of, home and foreign 

 merchandise for the same or similar services ; and that under 



