RAILWAY ECONOMIES
COST OF AUCKLAND WORKS
The cost of the Auekland-Westfield deviation, said Mr. Walter Nash, the Labour candidate for Hutt, speaking at Petone last night, amounted to £770,317 up to 6th July last, and the construction work on the new station and the reorganisation of the railway yards at Auckland had cost £1,271,731. He added that though he had asked for a return of the traffic sineo the new station had been opened, it had not been supplied, but the evidence availablo was that the traffic was less than that offering prior to the opening. The added expenditure, if taken at the low rate of 5 per cent., meant an annual charge on railway accounts of £.100,000 per annum. Mr. Nash severely criticised tho appointment of the Ptailway Board.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 15
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130RAILWAY ECONOMIES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 15
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