SHORTAGE OF TRUCKS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 82, 8 April 1910, Page 3

SHORTAGE OF TRUCKS.

Shipowners have now become so accustomed to the fhortage-of-trucki nuisance that it is regarded as metely it tiresome repetition to call attention to the frequent recurrence* of the trouble. The< nuisance is again in evidence at Wellington, and rttnmers with consignments of coal for the country are being more or let* wiouMy delayed through inability to discharge their cargoes. In the care of the Kurow it ml the Komatn the Union Company hits found it advisable to place about 500 tuns of coal into hulk" instead of huving the *U*amei.H held up at Wellington. This coal will Utei have to be dUehaiged into trucks — j process involving considerable expense in addition to ' the delay Some authorities my that the Railway Department is "doing its be»»i" in the matter of Hipplying trucks; other* contend thnl a moio orficionl dinttibiition of rolling .stock <ould <?aiily be auanged. ''Just now," *ni<l one 1 /"hipping man,- "there must be v Urge number of Hacks in use for the Trenthain race*. The covet n aie kept on till the races are finished. Meanwhile, .»liips are idle, and tie kept co till it suits the department to take the cover* off. The pi««tat position i* ji;«t b» [ »tnou« and at diacredlubie it it hu 1 or«r been la put yean."