SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 July 1926, Page 12

SOUTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK.

NIGHT EXPRESSES WANTED.

WILL THEY PAY? (By Telegraph.— Preee Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. A suggestion by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce that express night trains should be run between- Ghristchurch and Dunedin, was discussed by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. Mr. H. Chapman said that the Chamber must consider such a proposition from a business point of view. The Railway Department would need to be assured that such a train would increase travel and would not merely rob other trains of passengers. It was obvious that the public would require sleeping cars, which were very expensive vehicles, and he did not think they should ask the Department to run a train -without having considered the question of whether it would be a payable proposition. The matter was referred to the Chamber's railway coramittee. MARLBOROUGH EXTENSION. REPORT TO BE MADE SOON. BLENHEIM, Tuesday. The immediate fate of the South Island Main Trunk Railway will be settled during the course of the next two or three according to Mr. W. J. Girling, M.P. He has learned that Mr. Wilson,' the engineer who has been carrying out the survey, has completed his work and has returned to Wellington, where he, is preparing his report, which will be available in a fortnight or three weeks.