Untitled

Evening Star, Issue 17312, 27 March 1920, Page 8

A Wellington ' Times' reporter has been informed that a persistent rumor is current in railway circles that large supplies of rolling-stock for the New Zealand Railways have been ordered from Endnnd and America, "it would bo interesti'vi." the informant stated, " if the i'rime Minister, as Minister of Railw ;■■-,.:. w.-.-ld unk» a statement; (I) As to what rolhng-stock U any, has been ordered ; :2i why tho roll-mg-stock is not being bruit in the Dominion; and (3) whether this is because aa stated by Mr Hilev six vea:- ago, the rauway workshops are obsolete." The writ has been issued for the Smc? by-election, which will i.- 9 held on April 14. The two candidates announced Vu iar arc Mr John Edie, who ansuccossfnlJv cj>pMea Sir James Alien at the General hlecticn, and Mr James Eggg. Mr Paulin's iorecaet:—Stronir KE winds; mist on the East Coast;"fine Inland. , •-! f "VnV?, Wnl take fchp Statement for 1916/' stated Mr M. J. M«k (gwerS Eccrntary of tho A.S.R.S.) to a Wellington Id qar 3 re ** rU * { "rou will find that 14.968 men in all were employed on the New Zealand railways. That number was reduced-to .12.091 in 1918. The 1913 report '. owe the withdrawals from r'U a .i 6en<! } i 6°: *. nd *■}* engagements 5*3, lea a cencit lor tie -year of 746 men. Ih«, the J til 9 report shows 1,146 wilhdrao.-rus SB against 623 engagements, being a, further deficit of ol8; or a total loss for th« two years of i ; 263 skilled men." VHen tho food situation was <wuMne tha grayest auxiety in England, tho <. un-ri-i'ei issued a statement showing We anuunt ot p-oduee required from'"' ecu ru ,Rt i T3 i. S b' t D ' Hrl1 ' in an Lhri-'tchurch the other evening, said that it t'-.e wheat problem in New Zealand were as serious as the Minister asserted iLe voiii'on shomo be carefullv analysed f n that each f»rmer might be" able to know his responsibility for the ensuing year.