DAIRY PRODUCE HELD UP.
"•'IN LONDON AND- MANCHESTER. • The strike of dockors at Home is ' , holding up a consicbtablc; quantity of ... .New Zealand dairy produce. i?ix' steamers are held up in Lob don, and" one at Manchester. These vessels, together with their cargoes of butter and cheese, are as follows:— Butter, Cheese, At London — ... boxes, crates. . . . Mahia ...... v... 4,191 12,030 TPoTt Nicholson; •* .•; • 38,199- 35,8.18" - Haranga ......... 37,835 .18,537 Hurunui •'i..... i. 12,288 49,862 * ....... 16,041 7,828 Botoru-i. ........ 4,083 14,87.1 112,637 319,540 At Manchester— Wh vkatane ...... 10,696 5,644 123,333 125,184 . This shov.s that 3083 ton 3pf butter, ; , considerable quantity v arß ; afraitiii;j discharge. Tlu> h, over 1000 tons of 'is ■ neaping /destination. Both *s |lfeT-bUn:er r "' : lttnd ehmarkets arc quiet as buyers anticipate an early ,ierminatior of the strike, when therewill be exceptionally large, supplier available, and prices must then be lowered.
It is very seldom that speckil trains are requisitioned by private individuals in;, New Zealand for linking hasty journeys. A few nights o*o, on the arrival at Frankton of the Main Trunk express from Auckland, male passenger hurriedly made his way to the office of the stationm.'i«ter, who conducted him to a side line, where an engine with a carriage attached wa« already steaming. Thin had been ordered by telephone from. Auckland, and the man immediately boarded lier and the train dashed awrty on (in urgent journey to Rotorua. Travelling by "fecial" is a somowhat expensive mode ox getting about t;,ie country, and the journey from Frankton "to 'Kotonm ■would cost the something in the Tcgion of £50. Bpecfrihi fp iv's the •'Waikato arc charged for on the basis of 12/6 per mile for the fir-=t „ 30 miles, and 9/3 thereafter# with a minimum charge of £6 30/. tyere this f method of exclusive travelling to corno into general use, there would ¥ic little fear of the railways not paying.' !"
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Northern Advocate, 26 July 1923, Page 8
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