THE RAILWAY STRIKE.
[BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
TRAINS RUNNINC IN CANTERBURY.
SHUNTERS RETURN TO WORK
CHRISTCHURCH, April 28
A serious attempt to restore the railway services was made at Christchurch, when several guards, .signalmen and twenty college offered as casual labourers and were employed mostly in carriage cleaning at Is 9d per hour. The shunters who had been on strike returned to work and goods trains were despatched for Ashburton, Lyttelton and Belfast. An express for Oamaru with fifteen carriages and two vans got away at 9.20 with six or seven hundred passengers.
TRAINS IN OTAGO
DUNEDIN, April 28
Tlie Railway Department is making every effort to run more trains. Communication has been re-established with Invercargill and a. train is leaving hero this morning. To-morrow a service will he commenced will Christchurch and an express is leaving at eight.
For the first time since the strike trains ran to-day on the Port Chalmers line, to he relief of many workers. Services are still maintained with Outram and Oamaru. The train to Invercargill this morning was crowded.
TRAIN FOR AUCKLAND. HAMILTON. April 2S. The strike situation is quiet. ’Hie men solidly support the Association. The first train since the strike left Frankton this morning for Auckland, •arrying two hundred passengers.
HARDSHIPS OF SETTLERS. STRATFORD. April 28. The blocking of the Whaiigamoana railway line by the recent slips, which it is expected to take four months to clear, is causing extreme hardship to settlers. Work is also obstructed hv the strike complications and, the settlers have asked Mr McMastor .M.P.. to urge the Government to let the Puhkic Works Department do the work and provide special rains to take stores oilt as tar as possible. lIAWKF’S BAA' RACES. HASTINGS, April 28. No alteration has been made to the date of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s autumn meeting, owing to the strike, as it is found that any postponement, would conflict with other race meeting dates.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1924, Page 3
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324THE RAILWAY STRIKE. Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1924, Page 3
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