A FAMINE PICTURE.
If the eloquence of the member for thnstchnrdi North can move mountains, ]t should easily secure a good supply of Coal for Christchurch. H e put ah urgent question to the Premier in the House yesterday on this subject in such terhis that legislators could not help feeling sympathetic. Announcing his question as one of extreme urgency, Mr Isitt asked the House to pictSre Christ* church merchants sitting in their offices shivering, because they failed to feet even half a bag of coal. But still worse Was the position of a family who were obliged to spend Sunday in the kitchen, the only place in which they could afthe plight of well-to-do people • he argued, what ijiust be the position of pwrer resident, ? He hoped Ye Prime Alinister would do something to helpChristchurch in its emergency. lelP The Prune Minister was able to assure his anxious and eloquent questioner that, only a few hours before, he had consulted the Minister of Eai ways on the subject of getting coal supplies through the Otira tminel: for cS%f™\ f d that he found that everything would be done to meet tie enier^-
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1923, Page 7
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193A FAMINE PICTURE. Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1923, Page 7
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