 It included guarantees for 28,815 tons of freight but requested that improvements be made including bulk handling facilities for coal, fertiliser, lime and timber traffic.The guarantees were accepted by the government and it consequently granted a one-year reprieve.Some of the requested improvements resulted in a new timetable being introduced including four daily weekday trains, a private siding to a sawmill at Hope, the provision of a tractor at Nelson to assist with the unloading of lime, and the addition of 17 new wagons from Blenheim.