CARRIAGES CLEANED
Railways Wants “New Image’’
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Oct. 4. Some success has been achieved by the Railways Department in its campaign to polish up its image. The Minister of Railways (Mr Gordon) announced this evening that 600 railway carriages have been scrubbed clean under the Government’s winter-employment scheme. Since May, some 60 men at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Greymouth, and Dunedin have either springcleaned the carriages or prepared them for repainting. “Since World War 11, it has been next to impossible to maintain the visual standards we would like," Mr GorIdon said. “To some extent, (steam traction has been responsible, and it has also been difficult to recruit cleaners. “But now that we have, in the main, diesel-electric traction, I intend to do my best to create, and maintain, a new image.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31802, 5 October 1968, Page 44
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