AUCKLAND DEADLOCK.
GAS SUPPLY ENDS TO-NIGHT. TRAMS STILL STOPPED By Telegraph.—Press Association.- ' ; Auckland. Last Night. The position in regurd to the city tramways and electrical station remains unaltered. Small supplies of Huntlyl ' coal allocated to the City Counoil ftts * being divided between the> electric*! atft> tion and the tramway power-house. . The Public Services Committee Of the City Council will inset on Saturday to consider the position. From present in*' dicatiqps it will be well on into nest week, if then, before the tramway tor*. • vice is resumed. To-day motor vohioit (i owners did brisk business in carrying workers to and from the city, while the races at Avondale provided then ; with an additional source of revenue. 1 " fas will be cut off from nine o'clock •' tomorrow evening, as previously,' #o- \ uounced; and great hardship will result, as hundreds of housewives are defendent on gas stovca for cooking. Xjd«4 to this there is a shortage of firewood ' and coal for household purposes, and of lamps,, candles, and kerosene for light- ' ing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1920, Page 5
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170AUCKLAND DEADLOCK. Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1920, Page 5
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