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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22358, 23 March 1938, Page 10

Rail-cars to run on,.the Wellington-Palmers-ton North-Wanganui-New Plymouth night service are under construction at the Hutt railway workshops. Because of difficulty in obtaining materials, particularly steel, the construction of rail-cars is more than a year behind schedule. At the workshops six of the new standard type of rail-cars are in various stages of construction, and the first to be completed is to be ready for its trial run toward the end of April. The new rail-cars are to incorporate many radical changes from the design of those already in use, but these changes have not been made because of any weaknesses in the present cars. It is the department’s intention to place the cars in commission on every important section of its system throughout both islands.

“What struck one about Germany was the cleanliness of the streets and the fact that everybody seemed busy,” said Mr C. G. C. Dermer, of Cheltenham, in relating to members of the executive of the Manawatu and West Coast Dairy Companies’ Association some impressions of his recent trip abroad. “If you drop a tram ticket in the streets you are fined. You get a feeling that everybody is working and hard at it. It had an effect on you that made you realise that, if we went to war with the Germans, they would be a hard proposition.” Mr Dermer added that in France the people seemed “a giddy lot” and the impression that not much.reliance could be placed on them.

Domestic cats that have reverted to their natural wild state are reported to be very numerous in the Eglinton Valley district this year, and a motorist who recently visited the scenic road was surprised at the large numbers of cats that have made their home in the bush. At present they are a distinct menace to native birds, which seem to be less numerous in the yalley than they were a few years ago.

“I can tell you all that whatever money is required for education will be provided by the Government,” said the Minister for Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, at the opening of the Waterloo School, Wellington, on Saturday. The Government considered education one of its major responsibilities, he said.