DISLOCATING OF TRAFFIC
HUGE DEMAND FOR MOTORS,
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CAIiLE ASEOCIATJON.) ' LONDON, 21st January. Many milk dealers aro making arrangements to transport their milk by motor-cars. One milk company has collected 1500 lorries. Another, a fleet of 350 lorries, has been organised to supply Covent Garden with vegetables, meat, and fruit. Supplies in cold stores are well above the average. There hiis been a great rush for petrol supply throughout the country, and many of the smaller dealers cleared out their' stocks. • The railway strike in 1919 cost Britain- £50,000,000, The Government's expenditure abne was £10,000,000. The present strike alone is costing the London, newspapers £30,000 daily, and extra for distribution by motor-cars and lorries from ..;:11 .directions, which are carrying newspapers as far as Wales.' Many schools have curtailed their holidays:.. Schoolboys and girls iiave gone, back three days before the term began. ...Commercial travellers also have humed, back..to.their, grounds on Satur- ■ day. and Sunday, . , .
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 7
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156DISLOCATING OF TRAFFIC Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1924, Page 7
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