AUCKLAND'S PLIGHT.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1920, Page 5

AUCKLAND'S PLIGHT.

NO TEAMS RUipajft, ' \ MM I GAS-SUPPLY. RUNlpfO QI^C. "nil 111 It ■ / jf'hf 1", Br Telefiaphi—Preii Viwfrtlgi, ''' * " AncKUnjJ, 'fSap^-ef, The stoppage of tra&s mi not •# ously felt on Sunday, oil wWfiJrjJsyl traffic has been light s&M t&fe'iif were recently doubled. ;* YThe suburban trains ci®!ied feat loads of passengers, atfA special trains relieving pressure. The morning'vftii 'ifflKsi but the weather clea x& UtitfSM day. Motor vehicles, ruimity •hpton-, the suburbs in a steady ttrftMn, flttM business people to rcach„j?ofk as U*B . .Auckland, tut HfeMj The Gas Tift' firrCl supplies of coal tn sight;* arid fa jxqt'ftM in a position to. carry on its tarn lor longer than a few days. Sp.tyrii can be seen at tljp moment, thepftJtßi of the gas supply continuing wMN this week is very small. Mr> iTSj engineer and manager to the utifSj will make_a definite annowdMsSr! gardtng tfie service to-m«rrw,) *

WHAT IT MT2AN& ' . y jM DISASTER TO THE WORKER'. The Auckland Heral<L of SttUffhrJjM says: "That the tramways kept running for three weeks attsr miners struck work is doe to the and resourcefulness of the ffllj (MB cil in accumulating a considerable ififfljjfjß of coal. But these reserves rapidly approaching exhaustion t&at Jpfu less fresh supplies come to 'fjnlM dismissal of five hundred tramwayiSSlaß will soon be followed by w idesprvad TlTljifl employment. If coal i» withheld jffajjH week the electrical power plant, fail within ten days from now, ft/fi. with the more or leu eimultsaMus haustion of coal stocks, will ininlllWjOM involve thousands of worker«-,in Jmßwl land alone in the hardship* AnA that are unavoidable when giving id 4ms| and wages cease. There are thousand men and women Ainepjttmm gaged in the industries of the metmfijsl politan area, and for most of refusal of the miners to dupply threatens disaster. With the sion of the gas supply, an ulUnJiMlroH risk, this disaster will become »-tMtgwb -SB for the whole community." hH