CRISIS AT ROTORUA.
ROTORUA, April 28. The news that the railway strike had actually come to pass after the mutterings and rumours of yesterday, caused consternation among tlie visitors gathered for the Royal celebrations in Rotorua, to the two thousand Europeans concerned as well as to the six thousand Natives concentrated in the camp at Aroha Park. It presaged immediate difficulties of an embarrassing character. Many had come with just .sufficient funds to carry them. over the holiday, and the prospect of .a prolonged stay ..meant the dispatch of urgent telegraphic appeals to home for money. Hundreds besieged the railway station during the morning to : glean whatever information was available as to possible train movements, but JStationmaster Stevens was unable to. do more than refer them to a notice ;posted up that "all goods, parcels, live stock and milk traffic is suspended tijl further notice."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9292, 29 April 1920, Page 5
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145CRISIS AT ROTORUA. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9292, 29 April 1920, Page 5
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