LIGHT RAILWAYS.
V INSPIRATION- FROM NEW ZEALAND. * ! (from: "bra owx cobhespondikx.) | « LQNDON, September 23. ' Sinco his return to his home in Sand Hutton, Yorkshire, Major Sir Robert Walker, -who was formerly a General Staff Officer at Auckland, has launched a very interesting experiment in the form of a light railway in connection with agricultural development. Tho ceremony of cutting the first sod at the opening of operations for the formation of the railway, was performed by Lady Walker. Among those attending the function were Jlr E. H. Hiley, lat© General Manager of the New Zealand Railways, who said that he did not expect to find on coming back that the Old Country was so far advanced in regard to the light railway question. In New Zealand, he said, it had been recognised that light railways were the only means of solving the agricultural development question. If Sir Robert's light railway was a success, he believed tho principle would be pushed forward throughout England.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16986, 8 November 1920, Page 5
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