BRIGHT FUTURE FOR RAIL CARS
New Minister’s Enthusiasm
BETTER SERVICE AT NO EXTRA COST By Telegraph —Press Association.Christchurch, January 13. The new Minister of Railways, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, is enthusiastic about the advantages likely to be gained in rail travel through the extended use in New Zealand of rail-cars. “It is too early to predict the future,” said .Mr. Sullivan to-day, “but I believe that in the rail-car the Government has the means of rejuvenating the railways and enabling the system to hold its own with other forms of transport, including in some degree the competition of air services." He explained that with the service decided upon with rail-cars it would be possible to give 200,000 miles’ additional service to the public at the same cost as the present service, and the department would be slightly to the good. The Minister recently made a journey in the experimental rail-car used bv the Railway Department, and he stated that the cars would prove very attractive to the public. As far as practicable the cars would be manufactured at the Hutt workshops, but the mechanical parts would have to be imported.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 93, 14 January 1936, Page 8
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190BRIGHT FUTURE FOR RAIL CARS Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 93, 14 January 1936, Page 8
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