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FIAT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

We beg to inform the Public that the new Models

FIAT 514 4-CYLINDER FIAT 521C 6-CYLINDER

air due to arrive on or about the 15th of next month.. For prices and particulars kindly apply to the Sole Agents-

A. Goeke & Co., China Building, 4th Floor. Tel, 22221. or our Distributors,

Fiat Garage,

Des Voeux Road Central. Tel. 24821.

Lancia Garage,

151, Praya East,

Tel. 23557.

Kindly watch for further announcement and descriptions in this paper,

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SOLE AGENTS.

MOTOR TRUCKS USE ON FARM IN U.S.

Distribution of Fruits and Vegetables by New Method.

BENEFICIAL TO BOTH PRODUCER AND CONSUMER.

Rapidly increasing use of the when growers sent men with loads motor truck by the farming in-of melons or fruit to peddle in terests of the nation is providing nearby towns, many of these! a channel for the ready disposal peddlers branched out, bought of fruits and vegetables for which their own trucks, purchased pro- there formerly was no commercial duce direct from the farmers and outlet.

then built up their own clientele. Application of the truck in this At the same time many farmers, respect has supplemented its nerwhen the fruit and vegetable sea- mal sphere in the transportation son opens, become truckmen- and sale of general agricultural merchants themselves, selling the products, with a startling effect produce of their own farms and upon crop production in many that of their neighbours in nearby

cities and towns.

areas.

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This is strikingly illustrated in Both of the developments of the transportation survey made merchant truckman idea have recently by Brice Edwards of the resulted in the direct delivery of Bureau of Agricultural Economics fruits and vegetables to markets of the United States Department much farther from the producing of Agriculture. It discusses the district than formerly served. movement of the 1928 crop of The truckman-merchant of both fruits and vegetables in southern classes can profitably afford to Indiana und Illinois and distribute perishables to more dis- emphasizes the large recent in-tant markets than can the com- crease in the use of trucks for the mercial truckman hauling for transport of farm products. cartage fees alone.

"

"Motor truck transportation In Improvement. of truck equip- southern Indiana and Illinois has ment has been another result of developed chiefly during the last the rise of the merchant-truckman.. four years," the survey states. "AWhere formerly most of the trucks characteristic of the use in this were made over automobiles and section is the supplying of rural small half-ton trucks, during the and small city trade by wholesale last two years a considerable nura- ind retail peddling with the truck-ber of one and two-ton trucks have man acting as middleman as well replaced the small ones. as carrier.

Many of the truckmen-merchants In southern Indiana, the formerly operating with one small Government's statistics revent, 65 truck each, are now using larger per cent. of the 1928 crop of fruits trucks, or.more than one.

and vegetables, including that por- In commenting upon the effect tion sold to canneries, was moved of the motor truck on production by truck. This truck movement and merchandising, the Govern comprised a total of perishables ment survey said:

trucked to their destination of "The truck has rendered a real 5,120 carload equivalents. The service by moving fruits and similar rail movement equalled but vegetables rapidly from the 2,788 curlonda..

grower direct to the rural retailer One factor contributing to the many miles away. It has made very heavy truck movement in a good market for second-grade Indiana is the proximity of the produce, giving the consumer: producing regions to the con-fresh fruits and vegetables in suming centres.

good condition at low prices.

In southern Illinois, where the "Five years ago, as a typical short haul is not as frequent alexample, growers in south-eastern in Indiana, nearly one-fourth ofinois shipped apples to Indiana- the fruit and vegetable crop was polis by rail. Several weeks or nevertheless shipped by truck, months later the travelling sales- The Federal statistics for this man for the Indianapolis firm, in movement illustrates that 23 per making the rounds of the rural cent, or 2,305 carload equivalents, towns, sold the same, apples in were shipped by truck as compared towns only a few miles from to 7.829 cars shipped by rail and where they were grown. truck combined.

The apples were much the worse for

A comparatively new develop their trip of 150 miles each way ment in the merchandising of and the many handlines. perishables in the section survey nearby demand is supplied direct Now, ed, the report states, has been from the producing locality in a the. advent of the truckman-few hours at small east and with merchant, Originally starting fresher fruit."

PARKING BANNED.

American Move.

FIRE RISK URGED. Believing that street parking is the root of all congestion prob- Jems, many American cities are taking steps to prohibit drivers leaving their cars in certain streets at all.

The move was started in the busi- ness district of Chicago last year and traffic authorities in other cities are following suit.

Besides the danger to traffic it is considered that numbers of cars parked in busy streets create a

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Sole Agents for Hongkong and South China:-- THE CHINA MOTOR SUPPLY CO.

28-28A, Des Voeux Road, Central. Telephone 21558.

Pranch Office-488 Yat Tak Road, Canton.

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Prave fire hazard and fire brigade authorities have joined in the move to ban them. At least twelve big eities have reviewed their parking regulations, some only restricting parking and others banning it. Ifonolulu and Hilo, the two largest cities in Hawaii, are said to be fal- lowing suit.

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O/o "Hongkong Telegraph'

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930.

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