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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16353, 16 February 1921, Page 3

-Ou Monday 7.40 rm. the member* of the High School Old Bovs’ Assocration will meet in the Masonic Hall t© hid farewell to Mr C l . E. Bevan-Brown, I« cOl,lO " ls successor Mr G. J. Certain residents of Waikari diffe? greatly from Air R. Evans as to the importance of the Press. “Oh, you are : important— we must look after you,’* said Mr Evans, to newspaper representatives, when he was allocating seat 3 jor Mr Massey’s tup into the country yesterday. The reporters met with* Totally different treatment at Waikari(here a luncheon had been prepared for the Prime Minister and his party. The I’ress representatives were kept waiting outside the diningroom for some time after everybody was seated, and then two of them were given places at a small table at rhejiottom of the room whete They could stare at a barren, brown, cloth, and listen to the sound of feasting, ami to subsequent- speeches* The other reporter was unable to get accommodation in the room When tthe meal was in its concluding stages; and everyone else had been attended to the two reporters who had gained '•eats were invited to partake of food. They declined. ■

Regarding the shortage of trucks, Mr I>. Hawke said to the Prime Minister at Oxford yesterday, that farmers were put to great inconvenience. Gentlemen m tho hall had been waiting to sejid away grain or months. “What we don’t understand,'’ said Mr Hawke “is the sending away of empty trucks. *yhich have been unloaded at our station. I think tliere-*is something radically wrong in regard to this.” “I have to admit truck shortage,” ssi<s the Prime Minister, in replv. "‘We ordered nearly a year ago 2500 trucks. t\ot one has been delivered vet. I have been informed tlrnt th© wheels and axles have been shipped. I don’t tfctnkr that they wll be r.ny use 'to us durncthe present harvest. All w© can dof* to make th© greatest use of the trucks we have Ijhave ascertahed tbat nisK ters at the Chrstchuncly and Heathcot* Stations have greatly improved. Jfc was stated that merchants wer© using trucks for storage. That will not be allowed to continue. I know the importance of the supply ©f trucks, and ! nm going to give instructions t© mv ]>cpartmcnt to do everything pcssihli to avoid inconvenience to