RAILWAY "CUTS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 202, 27 August 1931, Page 8

RAILWAY "CUTS."

UNDER CONSIDERATION.

LIMITED EXPRESSES.

ABOLITION A POSSIBILITY.

FURTHER FALL IN REVENUE.

(By Telegraph-.—Parliamentary Reporter.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

The further heavy decline in railway revenue is a supporting fact in connec-

tion with a number of rumours that the Railways Department intends making serious curtailments in services.

It has even been suggested that the Wellington-Auckland Limited express may be stopped, and passenger traffic concentrated on one daily express each way. This statement was referred by the "Star" correspondent to Colonel J. J. Esson, chairman of the Railway Board, who replied, "No such proposal has, up to the present, come before the board."

The "Star" correspondent understands that as a matter of ordinary business procedure the General Manager of Railways has been engaged with his administrative officers in exploring further avenues of economy, affecting not only services but staff, and that if the revenue continues to fall, some of the suggestions under consideration may have to be given practical shape, but for the present there are no radical developments pending.

The next meeting of the Railway Board begins on September 9.