GENERAL TELEGRAMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 269, 23 March 1911, Page 8

GENERAL TELEGRAMS

BLUFF OYSTERS. By Telegraph.—l'ri'is Association. Inverciirgill, Last Night. In regard to northern complaints re Bluff oysters, a reporter to-day interviewed the District Railway Traffic manager, who said that the trouble was the abnormal spell of hot weather. The train arrangements were identical with those of former years, regarding which no complaints had been heard. He maintained that the insulated waggons asked for by oyster merchants were entirely unsuitable for the conveyance of oysters, because the vans are air tight. He advocated H waggons, better known as cattle trucks, because being partially open at the sides, they would allow air to play over the oysters, or, better still, a special waggon that would repel the sun's heat and still allow a current of air, THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. Wellington, Last Night. Upwards of three hundred persons attended a meeting in the Town Hall tonight, called by the recently-formed National League. Mr. Ranson, who presided, explained that the meeting was the result of gatherings held recently by men who thought the time had arrived to oppose fanatical legislation. The league belonged to no party. A resolution was carried to the following effect: "That all moderate-thinking members of the community should combine to oppose the irrational views of those who desire to impose unreasonable restrictions on the people of the communitv."