Big Road Convoys When Trains Cease
Received! Monday, 9.50 p.m. BRIBBANE, Peb. 9. M^re than'500 fi'eiglit and passenger vehieles have been prfessed into service to meet the State1 wide emergeney ereated by the. railway strilve, In oiif fruit and vegetable eonvoy more thau 50 trucks brought essential supplies to Brisbane. Emergeney transport bound for the dity bottleriecked at three points thH morning. 'Taxis, trucks and jeeps pack ed with city employees were bankfijcl, into halNmile queues at Victoria anu Indooroopilly bridges and Petrie Bight. Today — the seventh day of the strikc — eoal freiglits are the only traiiis ru'n ning. The strike began with the deUiand of 3000 workshop and running slied nien for an inerease in marginai rates. Since then" thousands of employees outside the rail services have been threatened with unemployment and the far West areas faee .a eritieaJ food position, Oomprehensive arrangements have been made by the Pdst-master-General 's Department for the ^lespateH of mails by air, road and sea.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1948, Page 5
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162Big Road Convoys When Trains Cease Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1948, Page 5
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