Competition for Railways
PA Dunedin A call for private enterprise involvement in the New Zealand Railways system nasi been made by the Minister) of Tourism and Regional De-; velopment (Mr Cooper). I Addressing the Otago-i Southland divisional conference of the National Party,! Mr Cooper referred to recent; calls for more private enter-’ prise in the nation. The Railways was show-! ing a loss equivalent to $200,000 a day. Private-sector road freight contractors could do the job competitively. New Zealand had onlv
i|3.l5M people. “Ask ourselves can we still afford to have ■ a Railways that is being overtaken by the private sector? “My answer is no,” Mr; •(Cooper said. He advocated a) I good computerised” freight) (service, “tidy up some of the) (laterals, and put it over to; -the competitive private .sector.” / Mr Cooper explained after- • )wards that it would be better for private enterprise to take over some of the freighti haulage sectors rather than ■duplicate services. But, he llsaid, it was not possible for; private enterprise to take over the Railways as a whole.
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