Shipping men are experiencing one of the recurving "crises" in what is, to them, a chronio trouble—tliG shortage of railway trucks. Yesterday, two vessels of the Union Company's fleet were lying in port, ready to discharge cargo, but there were no trucks available. "AVe are pnssin" through one of the acute stages of the truck trouble just now-," remarked a shinning man to a Dohinios reporter yesterday, during the course ol a gpneral conversation. Just then a'man walked into the office and wanted to know when he could get his coa). Tho shipping man shrugged his shoulders. "\o trucks," he said, laconically. OVBIiHRAKT) IN RAILWAY CAE.RIAGE AT I'ALMEKSTON. Mrs. C.-"Jly Dear! I had such a love. Iv.Afternoon Tea at 'Diistin's' in Tha 14 was '■fo r l' a going up town lor." .Mr. C. (very cross): "You might ni'.v? brought some for me; but, never ■.uiuil, ive'll both- go to 'DustfnV in n-UuiuiiUi. —AavC.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 785, 7 April 1910, Page 4
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154Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 785, 7 April 1910, Page 4
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