SERVICES CURTAILED
OJUIt T i\JJUU UUItJ. iIXiJJUJiy AUSTRALIAN COAL STRIKE (Received April 2, 11.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, April '2 The effects of the coal strike are daily becoming more noticeable throughout Australia, chiefly through the progressive curtailment of railway and shipping services. Country and - suburban train services are to be pruned in New South Wales next week-end. This course has already been taken in Victoria and Queensland. The passenger shipping service between .Sydney and Tasmania will cease shortly. Four thousand employees of the steelwork's at Newcastle will he made idle by to-night. Train restrictions imposed on Victorian railways from to-day because of the coal strike,will save about 17,000 miles of running each week with consequent savings in coal. Suburban electric train services have been heavily reduced. particularly on Saturday nights. A i rvTi*ntA nATinnn
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23621, 3 April 1940, Page 9
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133SERVICES CURTAILED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23621, 3 April 1940, Page 9
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