FERRY SERVICE PROSPECTS.
OHRISTCHURCH, April 28
There is every prospect of the ferry service 'between Lytt.elton and Wellington stopping if the South Island railway.men go out. Mr S. K. Sleigh, manager of the Union Company in Christchurch, said yesferd'ay that undoubtedly a general strike would affect all shipping arrangements. In the first place passengers would not be able to get down to Lyttelton, unless they went over the hill in motorcars. The whole trade of the country ■would be lieid up. Goods would not come into the towns and nothing would be able to leave. The grain season was at its 'height and producers won Id suffer enormously.
The Maori, which arrived from Wellington yesterday, carried only a quarter of her usual complement o' passengers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9292, 29 April 1920, Page 5
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