COOK STRAIT FERRY
Officials To See Services In U.K. (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 28. Tenders, on a world-wide basis, for the new Cook Strait road and rail ferry to be operated by the Railways Department will be invited toward the end of this year, and it is expected the vessel will be ready to go into service early in 1962.
Announcing this today, the Minister of Railways (Mr Moohan) said Mr A. T. Gandell, General Manager of Railways, and Mr H. D. M. Jones, of the Marine Department, would be going overseas next week on a two-month visit to confer with naval architects and shipyard authorities, and to study the design, operation and administration of several, modern ferries operating in open waters and controlled by railway organisations at Vancouver, in Britain, and on the Continent.
“The officers will see modern ferries in operation,” he said, “and the basic design of the vessel, now in hand, will be completed immediately after their return to New Zealand.” Mr Moohan added that Mr Gandell would meet senior executives of the several overseas railway systems, and would discuss with them modern transport methods for passenger and freight traffic.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28907, 29 May 1959, Page 13
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