THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1919, Page 5

THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

FURTHER PROTESTS. . ' The following telegram -was received last week by Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P. f f from Sir James Allen: "Your telegram .to-day, with reference to railway restrictions, received. I am placing your representations befote the Minister' of Railways." 7 On Saturday Mr. Wilkinson dispatched;: the following wire to Sir James Allen: "I have not received any reply from the Minister of Railways. My appeal has been specially made to you as head 1 of'the Government, and I again asic you to use your powers to insist that some measure of service be given, by the Railway Department for essential goods traffic, without which development work in country districts must be brought to a complete standstill. Another milking machine company has sixty plants to instal, and must have cement. Another industrial concern has cancelled £14,000 worth of work owing to the ■ lack of supplies, and as soon as the small available local supplies are used up grave results must occur. The Railway Department does not, apparently, realise the position, and if the Railways were privately owned the position would bo deemed by the Government to be intolerable. My request was for two goods trains weekly from New Plymouth and Patea to, say, Stratford."