NEW RAILWAY STATION
NEARLY £1,000,000 SPENT ALREADY About half the total cost of a new railway station for Christchurch has already been spent by the Government. The main work to be done in the £2,000,000 project is the erection of new administrative buildings. "The public cannot see much for the money spent and the work done so far, and are naturally apt to get a bit impatient, but it is just this work of which so little can be seen that is really the essential part of the job.” said the Minister of Railways (Mr J. K. McAlpine. The bulk of the money already spent had gone into new goods sheds —certainly the newest, probably the biggest, goods sheds in New Zealand, he said. Mr McAlpine said that new platforms would have to be built and tracks relaid before the new station building was put up. When it was built part of the staff would continue to use the present buildings. “We can do it only a bit at a time because we cannot interrupt the services. If we could close down for six months it would be a different story,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27584, 15 February 1955, Page 8
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