Berkshire Chronicle Reading 09-1919

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in support ef «I.
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showD lhat the
a capital victOry ll'ae~..
can only make a S1IC:aI....
will DOt lad!
... ~.. WlD. dub came ~
of the 1I'U ~
a good many eI'1IIe
losses. B,

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of
die
to . stan oa.. . .
a fairly f1ourislrin,. __
have got tOlJetha a tala
great credi1 011 ~ ;.a,...
H. J. Matthews, oae of tIae
'of a footbalJer In • dae
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wbom t~ ~
owe an incakulaWe
bave a hard J)rogr~1DIIae
the players .,ill be CDQ...
but tbe good foaa
rday .bas mad the Rphopeful. A very cordial
extended to the n Foot.
" on its reissue on
tbe ' demand far exceeded
We are very gratified b,
expressions of appron)
ached us as to its COJlt.eDts
and we are sparin.. no
ItS reputation as the g.
ap~r for ~very
supportes
this district. There isthat lis sale this season
all previous recQl'ds,
co-operation of our readers,
may be dlsappointed - in
obtalD a copy,

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Mr. R.

J. Venner, part8el' in' ~~ arm
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of 'Venner and Sons, wholesale grocers,

of 'Southampton Street, stated t43t the
trouble was with the silly arrangemeJ?-ts
in force. Fot , instance, the co~paDles
would not take empties back lWithout
g etting a permit from L on d on, ~ nd yet
foodstuff was hung up at ·~e ot1ier ~d
simpl)" because there we[~ ..IlO
m
which to pack it. Trucks.weAl Ihl~ulgllll
to'London every day partially filled, so
surely they could take just t
few
empties. If th.ey had one
back the railway' company wo~d Bot
accept it un(1l they . ~ad
tt~ to
London and got pecIDtSSlOn to take 11 on
board.. Look at the waste of time and
correspondenoe !
Continuing,
Mr, Vennei' ~ed!
If Matters are considerably .
~cd to
what they. haye been. No doaJ) if
companies were allowed to
their own affairs aU would ftrJ'j
be straight. The trouble is caused
ouUide' people woo considerably
fere with work they do
un....-<-.
stand.
of 'if \
If There is a tremendous Jot
III et:·
ing going on, and ',if is worse than It
has ever been before. Then the 4amage
is so great a!j regards e~ that we
refuse to send them by trll~ no",,::
deliver them by Cfilr own vebides,

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," TIae - U 01 '"'II _ _oc.l ~ ia no
_ at ou. u.. Jut pear;
it ill aot reall,y u good. ,The dillicoltios of
obtailling i.IIl..,rted ~ .... chiefl,.. tM.
of trauit Ud troallll. at the docks. The
trouble hu 'beeIl in ge~g the hipe Ull.
IoadN ..1Ie-.tJ.eF ~ this country and of

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for dispatch, but that
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porarill' closed, and. then:iore.
goods cannot be . f~rded until
!jtatiom are apen 3g2.1n for the
pttilla' the meat by rail in time fo~ 00...
of goods . . It appears to us that
sumption and in 8Ucftioient time to d 1 prowtuation becomes WOlse rat,h~ than perIl with the jJeriababl~ arliole.
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petter, and unless. &:eater facih,t1es c~n
" One of the ohief causes of tbe sho~
~e proVideP,-, buildtnlt. o~rat1~ns 10 of hom&-produoed meat:.t said Mr.
R.e ading will be senously hindered, h~6t, U is tb. who_ _ ....ughter of imma.
__ .l als,0 ing
turein,took
perlJ,.. on"Sut8OCq1!nt
of bad JtTadqlusmg great inconvemence
dll<l
tlhe m.~ket,
oll,"fly 111 the -09Vune,mployment _"
'be" , _ t sIaaP-~ the ~ ~
Ask.ed if water tnllsport was
lJlg that nCb .taCk u oftea wOifll . . . . 111 ttl!
used at :ill, M~. CoU~ said-tlle quantity _Iwie!aed 8bta thaa to .0 . . .ra atook.
was quite ~1e. •
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til tso. III&iteR 1f1Iic1l DOII1d be
Our ~epcesentaiive sUgges~ed that this
died
~t be a war Ol)t of the difficulty, but
LOC.lL
IJr. (';ollier said it could not be used to
any great extent ~use of the sIowness_
of transport. Blit· if a service could be
properly organised undoubtedl, the railmight be r~ of &, 1ar~e
amouat of the heavy tr~c. There 15
no dIicient otganisation , of
walei'
transport at. the present ~

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DAMAGE IN TIWIS11'.
Mr. F. E. Moring, the
coofectioner. of Caversham Road, said
bad delivery of goods, in ~ qt
rate, had been the cause of a . ~ea:t
of dislocation of trade. Tile Chamber
of ComtIlerce were taking the matter up
very strongly, and had lat.ely been ' in
communication with the raIlways on the
subject. One point the railways . made,
and probably a very good one If-It was
brought out, was that traders in Read·
ing closed , their businesses for ~ long
in the middle of the day, and thiS h~d
been greatly to the detriment of t~e
work of the railways in delivery, , A
carman who."was sent out with a load of
goods might go to one shof which w¥
opened, and then find the neK.t closed.
Thtis he had to go on further, and then
come bade again, and a great deal of
time was lost in 4elivel')'.
T1ae railway
companies thought that the . e , had
c:ome when traders should ketJ> . some·
one at such times Gn the preJa1SeS who
coold attend ' to tbe taking in of goods.
U There is the question of ,lamage to
JrOOds," Ill'. Moting added. "For a
long time past a treat
has
lo.st ,lbrough goods beina'
wet oc some other cause. I do not
whellier the comr>anies
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waterproofs. Only 'this mor1liJw I had a
railway official roUnd to inspect a COIIsignment of chomlates d
ed by
weL Two othel' lots of ~ came on
Friday in a spoilt conditio
loads in. three days to me alone I"
Mr. Moring also mentioDed
thert
was a good deal of pilferina' ge~g on.

YAlD fA~ StQZSIDI.
Mr.' H. A. Kingh'am. pattDar of

weU-kuown firm pf ...t.olesale ~
and mallllfacturen of the ..
.. commodities, said he could not add anything
to what other tradesmen mi.ht state,
bot he would make a sU.ig~tion. ~
Reading ' there were sp\endid water
• facilities I:yinjf idle, while the railways
were so congested that they could noi
~rIy goods.
great amount of stull'
could. be brOUght~o ~eaqing easily by
thing wh:ttever was
water, and yet
being done with i

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