"KITCHENER SUPREME"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2479, 4 June 1915, Page 6

"KITCHENER SUPREME"

GOODS TRAFFIC AT HOME VERY SADLY DISORGANISED Interesting information regarding ths congestion ol all goods traffic by steamer and railway is contained in a letter just received by .Mr. H. G. Hill, New Zealand manager for the Bristol and Dominions Producers' Association from his chief at Bristol, Major A. E. M. Norton, D.5.0., who, it will be reraeml bored, toured New Zealand during September and October of alst- year. Kitchener is absolutely supreme in all things, states Major Norton. "If ho wants every ship, barge, railway truck, motor-car, donkey cart, wheelbarrow, horse, mule, donkey, and goat in tho Kingdom ho will have them, and no ono will say him nay, nor diK-s anyone want to. I'.veryone here realises the seriousness of the position—that our very ■ existence as an Empire and a free people depends on the result of this awful war. The Germans must bo crushed completely and soon, and to this end wo have all, here, and in the Dominions, got to submit to tho powers that be. "Regarding tho congestion at the various ports, Major Norton admits that tho Government have taken control of ; "early all the available space, and that firms' and individuals' interests como after that of tho State, with the result that there certainly is congestion. He says: I his is Avoninouth, and vou will > r''i' u * is simply splen- . did by the side of London and Liver- | pool. Chaos is about the only word to uso for tlieso latter ports. We have some stuff from Adelaide in London . sinco tho middlo of March: it is not | out of the ship, and that is all anv- , ono seems to know. Then there is the ' question of trucks and transit. We may bo able to get trucks, and just , when we are going to load them up have , them collared by some military official. , It sno good to kick: it's war, and ' there is an end of it—'kismet.' Then again wo may get the stuff in the trucks, but nobody knows when it will • reach its destination—everything has to ' stand aside for troop trains. My fur- ' nitnro left London on truck nearlv a • week ago, and has" not turned up in _ Bristol yet. _ It's somewhere on, rhe way. It is just impossible for vou peoplo to conceive how matters are." i -