THE RAILWAY CUT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 5

THE RAILWAY CUT

» SAWMILLEES' POOR PROSPECTS. By ToleirraDli—Press A ocr-niatlnn Taihape, July 17. A large meeting of sawmillers was held hers yesterday to discuss the dislocation of the railway service arid the stoppage of timber traffic. The millers are carrying on under the most adverse circumstances in the hope of some im-.. mediate prospect of alteration. If there is not ft definite prospect of tliis within the next week or two the millers will be compelled to give notice to all of theiv employees of their intention to close down, as they cannot go oh stacking up timber indefinitely. WAIKATO PERTURBED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hamilton, July 17. Waikato is seriously nertnrbed. The railway'curtailment is holding up the 'dairying industry, and if the matter is aig't remedied soon it may mean that nVany factories will not he working during the coming season. A crowded, enthusiastic meeting of business, professional men, and farmers this morning carried a motion emphatically protesting against the action of the Government in refusing to carry dairy machinery and ■ plant urgently required during the coming season; also insisting that the General Manager of Railways should visit Hamilton and confer with the Auckland Dairy Association, and that the dairying industry be .represented by a local committee. CARRIAGE', OP STOCK. (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) , Palmsrston North, July 17. That the embargo placed by the Railway Department on the carriage of stock until the train services resume their normal Tunning lias, caused serious loss to the farming' (.ommunity throughout the Dominion is instanced by case of a northern farmer, who sold his property before the curtailment of the services and acciuired a farm in the Manawatu. He had a particularly fine pedigree herd, the work of several years' farming, and he was prenaring to send them to his new place when the railway "cut" became operative. Ho was permitted to bring his. household furniture down, but to requests to be permitted to bring hia herd from the north the Department proved adamant. Tho herd had consequently to be sold, many animals at much lens than their true ■ value, and tho farmer has novr ; to obtain another.