TRAINS TO-MORROW.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 95, 22 April 1924, Page 8

TRAINS TO-MORROW.

MAIL SERVICES MAINTAINED. ORGANISED MOTOR SERVICES. BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.)' WELLINGTON, this day. While the railwaymen's leaders are completely satisfied with the response made to the strike call, there is also apparent a confident feeling in official circles that idle railways will begin to show signs of animation to-morrow, and that this will be a progressive development. "We are being deluged with offers pf cars," declared the Premier to your correspondent. Inquiries elsewhere point to that remark as the keynote of the Government's anti-strike policy. _ The first aim appears to be the utilisation of motors to run mail services. This was done early this morning in Wellington, when all the routes usually covered by mail trains were served by road transport. Citizens' committees are likely to take in hand the development pf these services to ensure the carriage of mails and of fppd tp inland towns. The public may thus expect a replica on a smaller scale of what happened during the last railway strike in England, when ex-mili-tary transport pfficers applied to civil needs their experience pf supplying the army by motor transport. The Railway Department will use all endeavours to run trains, particularly the through expresses. Inquiries at the Amalgamated Society's headquarters elicited the statement that the men are solid, their response to the strike call having been even better than the executive expected. There is also evidence locally that many locomotive men, as individuals, are standing by the Amalgamated members, and your correspondent was assured that resolutions of support have come from locomotive association branches in various districts.