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were loaded immediately. I would ring up the station-maser at Yilliminning or the Transport Branch at Narrogin giving the quantity of train tons loaded at sidings and request a removal and a supply of empties. The only satisfaction I got was a reply not to "bust' ourselves loading all trucks one day as trucks could not be supplied. I can bring documentary evidence and also independent witness to prove that loaded trucks were standing in different yards for periods ranging from three to five weeks. To-day [8th inst.] a party of high railway officials made a tour of this line, and I brought the trucking question under their notice, and they said much of the delay was caused through the Wheat Scheme being so slow at unloading at depots. We have had bitter cause for serious complaint, inasmuch that through no trucks our men could get only one or two days work in per week. They have been kept idle three parts of the time. Contractors will not handle wheat unless bigger money is paid in future years , for while they can make decent wages when handling wheat regularly, they cannot make sufficient by working one day only to keep them the rest of the week, I strongly deny the correctness of the statement that " plenty of trucks were available," and would call Mr . Inspector Sabine to bear witness that no trucks were available, and that on every one of his visits representations were made him on this subject. The fault was not ours but the Railways say the fault is attachable to the Wheat Scheme inasmuch as they were slow in unloading