The Coal Crisis.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 June 1919, Page 4

The Coal Crisis.

t NEW EQAILWAY ‘TIME-TABLE. I I EXIT ALL EXPRESS TRAINS. l ON AND AFTER W'ED_,NESDAY_. 1 __,,__. - i E On \Vednesda.y next the 't'raV'elli'llg ‘public of the Dominion,’ will make ldirect contact with coal saving as a. Ireal proposition. On’ that day, the New l Zealand Government Railways ct‘: l partment: puts into operation the ifixv ltimetable which mas p,l'OllliSqd - gto lastonish people a few days ago, and’ V ;a.ny who expected the_performan‘ce tolfall short of the promise will be disappointed. As the Minister‘ prolphesied, the genus express train makes a. hurried and ungraceful exit, while the overland journey between Aucklland and Wellington degenerates into‘ ,an inspeetionaltour of wayside ' staltions, country hoardinghouses, and [the natural beautiesiof the interior lwnds of the N-orth Island, the jaunt |occupying between two or three days. What may under the new schedule be ircgardcd as the Wellington train {BI | leave Auckland at 8 a.m., arriving‘ t" } lFrankton Junction at 12.55 p.m,. PasFsengers must change here’ into the‘ V‘ ,Taumarunui train. which leaves ‘ Frankton at 1.45 p.m., reaehing,Tau- l *marunui at 6.57 p.m. This ends I the’ first day’s journey. The following morning a train leaves Tiaumarunuij at 7 o’clock and arrives at Ohakune at’ 11.32 a.m. This train continues itfi journey, arriving at Marten at .»6_.p.ni.. .. and Palmerston North about‘ 8.15 pm. Here the second night is spent, p.m. On the North bound journey pasa-A sengers wil lleave Wellington in theafternoon and will have to spend,-the V first, night in “Palnierstan. The jounrey will be resumed next’: morning at 7 o’clock.' «_ 'ljaumar--unui being reached at 8.16. p.ln., and here the thaoyfarer must pass another night. ~The third day of the trip will start at 7.15 in the morning. 'Frank'ton will be reached at 12.25 and Auckland at 6.5 in the evening‘. - - " ‘ " The journey from Wellington’ "to New Plymouth will take two days, the first stage from VVe'llington starting at 8.4 a.ln.,‘ and finishing at Wvanganui at 6.20 am. _"l‘he journey is clontinued from V_Vanganui at 7.35 am. The Wellington-Napier run will "occupy several hours longer than ' at ‘p‘r'e'sent,.g‘ while -on the Wairarapa line’ ‘vtlle‘through mail trains have been "cut "out.

THE com. POSITION. BAD ENOUGH, BUT‘ EXAGGERATED. ‘ 4‘ . WELLINGTON, this day. “ One thousand four hundred Wand fifty tons of coal are avail‘a.b'le_i‘t'er Wellington this week. The chairfiihn of the Coal Committee says the big iiidustries‘ must have firsf conéideraiibn ‘to prevent people “Being tllr_c')vvil‘out of enlpl'ej*lllent. » M7l_liie adillit‘tizig ‘bait coil] is seventy thousand tons shbrt of last year ’s _suppl‘y.'_ he considefé fiat 8. gbed deal ef e‘xa'§gérz'ltien 'as‘ to the need of the" last few days.’ " American coal from Newport News, ‘on the utility of whieh doubt is cast,’ is, he contends, good coal, but rather friable.‘ Those using it highly appfov'e of it‘.