0 the transporting of goods by road, usually over short distances: --
The consequence is that, just as the coastal carrier cannot live against the subsidised railway traffic, so the private carter cannot live against the subsidised railway cartage.
Even at that figure of £12, that, with the average horse of cartage type round about 14 cwt.
There are practically no cartage costs.
There is cartage to the station to get the goods away, and a good deal of extra expense that has not to be incurred by other harbours.
We find that they control no fewer than twelve subsidiary companies, four meat companies, lighterage and cartage companies, and shipping companies with refrigerator steamships.
They will not pass it on to the cartage agents who are doing their work.
How long will this take while the railways pay high cartage charges to these carriers?
Inasmuch as their cartage staff has been depleted by the war as well as their goods staff, some congestion must necessarily follow.
