TIMARU COMPLAINTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 14 May 1912, Page 8

TIMARU COMPLAINTS.

TIMARU. May 13

The Minister for Railways met the members of the Harbor Board to-day and listened to complaints of the shortage of trucks and shunting power, on the wharves especially; and also the insufficient shed and yard accommodation. The Minister said that after visiting Christchurch and Timaru he saw that the truck-building programme must be revised. He intended to put an end to that complaint. He ■would probably have trucks, built outside the Department. He suggested that the Harbor Boaixl should follow the example of Auckland and Wellington, and ..provide facilities for workihg the wharves. He would consult his responsible advisers on the whole of the matters submitted to him, and provide the facilities asked for everywhere within reason. It was necessary for the development of the country's resources, but it would mean borrowing. He hoped those who asked for them would not accuse the Government of frenzied finance if it borrowed to meet their requirements.