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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16850, 28 September 1922, Page 7

Mr B. .1. Kortlang who came south with the Rev Wyudham HeatTicote yesterday. is well known to many Christchurch cricketers. He plaved for Australia in *1909, 1910. 1911 and 1912. The Mayor (Dr Thacker, M.P.) will leave for Wellington to-night. Tbo Alayoress will accompany him. i The Chamber of Commerce wrote to | the Minister of Public Works asking ;if daily produce could be carried i through the Arthur’s Pass Tunnel, and ! a reply has been received that the | Department can arrange to take butter j througii the tunnel on Saturdays pro- | x ided the Load, including trucks, is limited to sixteen tons and that trucks are ai the store at Otira by 11.30 a.m. Tlie dairy companies will themselves need to arrange with the Railway Department for permission to run the railway .trucks through the tunnel and to deliver the trucks at Otira store. The reply cont'uues: “The present / drought in Canterbury is making us ' very short of power at Otira and we will find difficulty in even taking this much at present, but as \ have already promised to take the dairy produce ( through' the tunnel T will do mv best | to’carry out the above arrangement.”