PRIVATE OPERATION
THE DARGAVILLE LINE
REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 17. An. invitation to the Government to formulate terms upon which the Dargaville railway and other abandoned railway branchps will be handed over to private operation is to be extended to the Acting Prime Minister (the Et. Hon. J. G. Coates) by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. The request is being made at the suggestion of the people of ■ Dargaville, who express the new that as the Government is unwilling to complete and operate the line, an opportunity should be given to private enterprise. The council of the chamber had before -it the terms recently announced by Mr. Coates upon which the Government will hand over the uncompleted East Coast line to private enterprise. The chairman, Mr. 'H. Turner, said that an enormous amount of money had been wasted as a result of the Dargaville line not being completed. No one with money or sense would consider leasing or purchasing the line under the Government's conditions. Mr. T. H. Bowie' said that the position with regard to the Dargaville railway was different, as no one had come forward expressing a wish to take the line over. In the case of the Gisborno line there was : a definite body of people who wanted to operate the line.
A motion asking the Government for its terms was carried.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 42, 18 August 1933, Page 8
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229PRIVATE OPERATION Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 42, 18 August 1933, Page 8
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