UPKEEP ON RAILWAYS

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 15

UPKEEP ON RAILWAYS

MORE MONEY AVAILABLE. ROAD SERVICE PURCHASE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Saturday. Mr. G. H. Mackley, General Manager of Railways, to-day supplemented statements which lie made yesterday in regard to rolling stock. He said that while periodical overhaul and repairs to freight stock had always been well maintained much had been done during the last two years to improve the standard of passenger seating, both in cars in service Slid cars in construction. The improved financial position of the railways had mado more money available for the purpose of improving seating and it was the desire of the board to continue its policy of improved seating within the financial limits available. In regard to the purchase of the S.O.S. Motors, which maintain a service between Wellington 'and Wanganui, Mr. Mackley said this road service would bo supplementary to trains. The service time-table observed by S.O.S. Motors would be continued and the fares would bo tlio same. The question whether the board would extend its operations so far as road services were concerned depended entirely on the merits and necessities of the case. While the board had been able to avail itself of an offer to purchase the business of S.O.S. 'Motors, there were no grounds for assuming that the board woul\ embark upon a policy of the general absorption of road services.