NO SHORTAGE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 22, 9 June 1939, Page 7

NO SHORTAGE

TRUCKS FOR FERTILIZER ORDERS POSITION AT TANEATUA There has been no shortage trucks for fertilizer transport foi several weeks, said the stat-ionmastei at Taneatua yesterday when ai report concerning late deliveries of kirnieis orders w.ais referred toi him. He added that if any delay had occurred it wa-;, probably due to difficulty experienced by works in meeting the rush of orders. The farmers' union complainel from time to time about truck shortages, but in.his opinion the.se wero often due to the fact that farmers 'allowed trucks t 0 stand at conn.trv stations' for two or three days before they unloaded them. No one had complained to him recently, and had there been a shortage of trucks he would certainly have been advised of the position by the transport department of the railways. MARRIAGES IN DOMINION A claim that ? because of the legislation of the Labour Government, the number of marriages in New Zealand had reached record proportions was made by the Labour candidate for the Christchurch South seat (Mr R. M. Macfarlane) in a speech lit Addington. Mr Macfarlane quoted the following statistics of the number of marriages in the Dominion since the Government had assumed office: 1935, 11,250; 1936, 12,187: 1937 13 808; 1938, 14,304; 1939, 15,467. "The only year comparable with the Labour years was in 1920, when the tens of thousands of soldiers were returning from the front," added Mr Macfarlane.