GOODS DEIAYED AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 15 April 1908, Page 4

GOODS DEIAYED AT NEW PLYMOUTH.

Complaints of the delay that occurs in gotting goods from Auckland ta-aii-shipped by rail to> Haweau are- very often made, but kaw thei troublei is re^ported to liavf become worsts In one C44>y goods that reached New Plymcuth by the Corifcra days ago , ara just arriving, wliiJc the boat has made the- ta-ip back and hak again difiohai-g-ed Lear cargo at New Plytacuth. It seeansi that the cargo ie not coi'ted up and dispatched before the arrival of anotheiP ci-rgo throws all into confuSdon., again. It is truei that during reoemt wfc€iks nhe cargoes, fromvaiinous causes, have bwu exceptionally large, in facfc each that liaa lately anivod has been of record size. Over a thousand Ume was brought on the lost trip. Tho whole trouble appears to be tha lack of accomnA'drttioin at New Plymouth. It is said that if more mcii-ware put on they would only be in one another's way, so that the fault lire- rot . with the local office at New Plymouth, but with tlie Depart•njent. We ar&.told tihat the foreman iii charge of the sli.td has Uen work--ing long hc^irs for some lima, afteii ■as many as fifteoni hours a day. But ■>vha.teyttt % may_be the caust, it is quite plain that, all ;the tfwiis which .draw 'through Nenv Plynioutih .havoju^ caust for complaint. We notice, in thei report of a deputation to tiho, Minister, dealing with ai similar qife^ticwq at Wanganui, that Mi- Hall Jones, . in replying, said that at New Plymouth, ■vnth. a > waller sihed, morei work was dome than at Wanganui. But if ttie complaints mudo . are only partially justified, Nfc<w Plymouth, too, is in urgfcmt need cf more accommodation. The Chambers of Commeice throughout, the province to takei united actiosi with, a view to immediately securing «. remedy f ca- the present confusion a-nd delay.