RAIL SERVICE FROM LYTTELTON

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27690, 21 June 1955, Page 14

RAIL SERVICE FROM LYTTELTON

CRITICISM MADE BY MANUFACTURER •‘The service we get from the railways between Lyttelton and Christchurch is just pathetic; Christchurch is getting further from the port than ever before,’’ said Mr W. M. Ollivier last evening, when the council of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Associa- ?> on from the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation a copy of submissions made to the Government’s transport committee. “The railways always tell us why they can t do something. We never hear what they can do,” Mr Ollivier When the tunnel road goes through they will find just how much they have been lacking.’’ COUPcil agreed to ask that when future submissions on transport are ,1, u manufacturers should be given an opportunity of pre • senting Canterbury’s case, which dit;E om otl) ers as shipments were m ade through a railway port. •, federation’s submissions- included one that it was not necessarily E Ub ' C taterest that all goods should be carried by rail. Greater wmSfh USe of road transport ?ontinH b ert ln h the publlc interest, it was contended. because some categories of goods could be handled more effitransportand economically by road Ollivier was appointed to repreassociation on the Christchurch Transport Advisory Commit-