PAEKAKARIKI LINE
First Engine Started By
Mr. Jordan
London, December 14
Pressing a button at a special ceremony at the works of the English Electric Company, at Preston, the High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr. W. J. Jordan, set in motion the first engine for the Wellington-Paekakariki railway electrification scheme. Replying to a toast at an official luncheon, Mr. Jordan recalled that Richard John Seddon was born in Lancashire. He referred to the growing trade reciprocity between Britain and New Zealand and expressed the hope that ways would be found for extension. British manufacturers were benefiting from New Zealand’s housing policy and wage increases, which were resulting in a movement from city residential areas to the outer suburbs, this meaning an expansion in the transport industry. ,
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 70, 16 December 1937, Page 7
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