SHORTAGE OF ROLLING STOCK

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 138, 5 March 1908, Page 9

SHORTAGE OF ROLLING STOCK

'/ AX'EXPLANATION. . ' . to' ! avstatement /appearing-' mlo ' as : - to' tho'-. shortage ■ 'of ■ rolling■' stock' for meat 1 'carriage, the Traffic Superintendent stated yesterday 'that tho ■ Railway Department-..was at all- times prel- - to meet.demands for wagons for working during> ordinary; thours' (between 8 a.m. a/nd 5 p.m.),,and that, itwas- only during . time _of - pressure'' 'and' .when' steamers, wero. working oyertimb . that -a 'sliortago '.occasion-. 1 ally ' With" rog'ard to 'frozen meat : wagons, s.the.-.position was - somewhat siniilar." At thevipreseiitvlxiomfeiit.' tlio whole, of. tho freezers!.(forty)r werq'.'inUisb 'by.'the;,two' meat' co m part lea/' and ;t ships' ■'wcre-r,.H'orking' ; long hoursin,-.order ;.to; get • the frozen'',meat on yoard, 'aod .tho Department 'Was 'ably- iissistjng jn^tlipj'mattor.'pf'-Slipplying'wagons. The indralpniayiscarted '.talciiig-'-in-'meat at. noon on . Saturday .last,; i and . had : takeu in to date Bomethingjlilre,.l3,ooo /carcases:per day, and the Kaipara took in. on. Monday-, and luesday,,,;-So : j.it "would; bov-scohv-tho- Depart-'-, nient had not . been idle. -■ A - large number of spccial ..trains | had been running -to. hring m. the meat: front jPetono and -Ngahauraiiga, and .tho .carcases .had also been -,sent . j ri•, by ordinary...trains, .'but; owing .to the exigenciesof tho_'t.rallic; spme little..delay has' occurred' once or twipe.iri goods trains (which had ,to B IV ® J the : delay; / .'it,',all i serious. ' ■,'l'lio presont. shipment,was. : quite'exceptional, and'the De-. partmeiit could ,riot, fairly .- bo expected to build'costly wagons to stand idle 300 or. more days ..