Improved Goods Traffic.

There has been a decided improvement in our goods traffic during the past twelve months, an increase of over 175,000 tons being shown in the total of goods and live stock carried. This has been partly due to special measures taken to deal with competition in certain areas, but I think it is to a still greater degree attributable to the personally addressed solicitations for business which we have made, and to the assistance we have given to traders in securing the best terms and means of transport for their commodities.

There yet remains, however, a considerable residue of business which should rightly be ours if the full facts of the position were properly and personally placed before the people concerned. To do this thoroughly, the assistance of all members of our staff is required, as opportunity offers, and I trust that, with such assistance and the following up of every opening for new business that presents itself, an even better record will be put up during the current financial year.