DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1919, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

AVAILABLE TONNAGE. By Telegraph.—Press Asiociatioa. Christchurch, Last Night. Tlio latest information which the Hon. D. H. Guthrie possesses respecting tho supply of overseas tonnage is that for the period January 15 to February 19 ten steamers will 'be available, and for the next month a similar number. The cool stores of tho Dominion, the Minister stated, are fairly full, but there was no reason to be at all very anxious about tho future. RAILWAYMEN'S GRIEVANCES. Taumarunui, Last Night. Mr. R. Scmple spoke here last nigh, to a large audience, when a resolution was passed: "That this meeting of citizens calls on the Government to concede the railway servants their just demands." After the meeting a branch of the New Zealand Labor Party was formed. A DELAYED TRANSPORT. Wellington, Last Night. The Defence Department notifies that returning draft 210, per ss. Wiltshire, due at Wellington about January 20, has not reached Australia, and therefore the date of the arrival is uncertain'

RETURN TO CIVIC LIFE. Wellington, Last Night. The desire of the Government tint soldiers should return to conditions 1 of civil life as soon as possible was »!»• tioned by-the Hon. Ruseli 'wlieti l presenting the Phuket shield to the OnWrbifry cricket team. The Hon. Russell- rtfetWtl to the fact that the Wellington te«m contained three returned soldiers—?. W, Condliffe, P, Raker, and H. M McGirr" Of the Canterburv team. 'C. R. Brunton and D MeHeth had also "done their bit* ''What the Government ivishes" said the Hon. Russell, "is that our soldiers shall as rapidly as they are able, and as oon as their health get hack to their old occupations and their old »ort and reoard war a« something that has passed"