THE CURTAILED TRAIN SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1919, Page 5

THE CURTAILED TRAIN SERVICE.

IS BEER AN ESSENTIAL? DAIRY COMPANIES OFFER COAL TO RAILWAYS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. Tin dairy industry is suffering through restrictions on traffic and materials needed for extensions and repairs. Numerous factories are held up and it is likely the trouble will seriously disorganise next season's business. The companies have, at the suggestion of Mr Young, M.P., offered to lend the Department sufficient coal to take their urgent requirements. Mr Young wired the Minister for Railways urging that effort should be made to carry essentials, and stating that presumably the coal position in the Auckland section Swas improved during the past fortyeight hours, as evidenced by the fact that a consignee at Hamilton received on Friday five tons of beer, which one could hardly credit the Department had authorised as absolutely essential unless coal stocks had improved. The wire continued: "Are you or Cabinet powerless to insist upon urgently required home building materials, boots, leather,' clothing, blankets, dairy factory requirements being classed equally as essential to the well being of the community as beer? A few more days of the present policy and unemployment will be widespread." Mr Young also wired the acting Prime Minister urging Cabinet to devise means to assist the Department to meet urgent transport for dairy eows. The fact that a Hamilton consignee had received five tons of beer on Friday was incensing the public. Early action by Cabine.t was imperative