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Canterbury drivers will continue to make deliveries of essential goods to hospitals and old people’s homes during the five-day strike. The union secretary (Mr P. R. Liggett) said that the executive had also agreed to exempt coach tours already under way, and food deliveries in transit. However, a wide range of other exemptions had been rejected.
Christchurch Transport Board buses will stop running on Friday, if the board does not receive more fuel by then. The board’s general manager (Mr M. G. Taylor) said last evening that it received 28,000 litres of diesel fuel yesterday, which would last until Wednesday evening. If it did not receive more fuel in the next few days services would start to tail off on Thursday,
and all the board’s vehicles would be off the road by Friday, he said. The board ran out of fuel on Sunday because it did not get a delivery last week because of the strike by railwaymen. It usually has two full tanks, each containing 28,000 litres, but because of the shortage of fuel and the expected strike by drivers it received only one tank this week.
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