SHORTAGE OF RAILWAY TRUCKS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13890, 30 April 1907, Page 5

SHORTAGE OF RAILWAY TRUCKS.

(Pin Uxited Fitcss Association.) . AUCKLAND, April 2J>. On the subject'of shortage of 'truclts, .Mr Miliar said it was imjjossiblu to run enough trucks to su't every emergency, but lie thought that goods trains might be run at night, to rclie\o any congestion thut might ! arise.

At the annual meeting of the Taupiri Coal Mines Co. this afternoon the shortage of railway trucks was *cfcrr«i to. It was ' stated that the output during the past year would have bceii at. least 10,000 tons more had there been sufficient trucks. It was also stated that a petitioil to tho Minister of Railways whs being promoted asking him not. only that more waggons bo provided, but also that, engines, of larger sizo be employed <-n the Waikato line, it

being asserted that tho present engines ; could not bring full loads up.some of tho steep grades between - Mercer and Auck- ,\v? land. A shareholder asltefc whether tha directors had considered the question of providing their own' trucks, but it was '\, explained that the Government' did noi '$ allow 1 this to .be done.