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of this question. Iam sure that if it were put forward by a practical man it; 
would not be long before we would see the introduction of the elevator system, 
When it is to be introduced, however, will depend upon you. A gentleman hag 
asked whether the Railway Department would build special wagons to convey the 
grain to the elevator. I think they would, and, moreover, I think that it would 
pay them. The system would effect an immense saving in rolling-stock, and. 
this, again, would justify an application on the part of the farmers for a 
reduction in freights I believe the position in Queensland as regards thiy 
elevator system is pretty much the same as it was five years ago; and I have no 
doubt whatever that if the matter were pressed, and if you farmers express a, 
desire to have the system introduced, it will not be long before you have it. Ty 
it too much to ask you to help to get it into operation by the season after next ? 
One thing I forgot to mention. When the wheat has reached the large elevator, 
where it is cleaned, graded and weighed, the farmer gets in exchange a warrant 
for the quantity of wheat he has sent in. Then if he wants to sell at current 
market rates he hands his elevator warrants to aselling broker and gets the cash 
within twenty-four hours. If he does not wish to sell, and yet needs some cash, 
the bankers are glad to advance liberally on the deposit of the warrants. He 
is free to dispose of his crop when and how he likes, and if there should be any 
hitch with the buyer as to the quality or quantity the elevator people have to. 
bear the brunt of that. 
_ Mr. L. J. Moopy (Geraldton) asked if Mr. Thynne could give some idea. 
of how the wheat is taken from the thresher to the railway station. 
i Mr. J. Trorr (Pittsworth) said he was rather at a loss to see how the 
system is applicable to the whole of this State. Although he was in favour of 
it, it must be remembered that many of our farmers were unfortunate enough 
to be from 15 to 30 miles from a railway station, and the difficulty with them 
is to get their produce to that station. It would be almost impossible to deliver 
their wheat in bulk at a terminus on the railway. Their threshing was generally 
done by contract, and the farmer had his 100 or 1,000 bushels threshed in a 
very short space of time. 
Mr. H. A. Tarpent (Dallarnil): I hope that some resolution will be 
passed by the delegates strongly recommending some practicable scheme for the 
Inauguration of elevators here. I think they should be started by the Railway — 
Department. They can be started first of all as an experiment, and then they 
can be extended all over Queensland, for if they are a success for wheat they 
will be a success for maize and the other grain crops of the State. 
Mr. V. C. Repwoop (Toowoomba): Although a strong believer in the 
elevator system, i would like to point out that it will take some years before it 
can be established here. Mr. Thynne hopes that it will be before another two 
seasons, but I think it will be at least three. In the first place, the farmer 
must have shed accommodation. It is all right for those alongside a station to 
cart their wheat direct to the elevator, but those who live 20 miles away must 
have a shed. There is no doubt that we are progressing in the growing of 
cereals, and that we must have a cheaper method of handling. There does not 
seem any other way out of the difficulty than by the elevator system, but I 
believe, with Mr. lardent, that the Government should build the elevators, 
provided, of course, that the Government is satisfied that the farmers will 
support them after they are constructed. If we organise and prove to the 
Government that it will pay them to build elevators, I think we shall have gone: 
a long way towards getting the system inaugurated. It should not be hard to 
prove that the elevators would be remunerative, for, in the first place, the 
Railway Department would probably require only a third of the rolling-stock 
that it now uses in connection with the transport of grain; again, in unloading: © 
the system would be of the greatest value to both millers and maltsters. These | 
latter would be able to handle the grain they purchased much more cheaply,. 
and the farmers would share in the saving effected thereby. I shall do all in 
my power to help the elevator system, and I think we should start to organise: 
