RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK
[Special to the Star.]
CHRISTCHURCH, February W. Mr G. W. Russell, M.H.R., addressing the Canterbury Trades and Labor Council on Saturday evening on ‘ Railway Rolling Stock,’ declared that the cars which were imported from America at a cost of £1,700 each could have been made in the colony for £1,400; and that waggons imported from England for £lB2 each conld be built here for £l7B. He admitted that the growth of the traffic necessitated an increase of the rolling stock, but be considered that the importation of cars and waggons, at any rate, should only have been resorted to as a last resource. It was impossible to say that the local plant had been fully employed. Why coeld not a second shift of men have been put on and the workshops run for sixteen or even twenty-four hours per day in order to overtake the demand? Not only so, but Christchurch firms had offered to make 500 waggons at a price which would have considerably less than the English ones, though it would have taken nine months to get a plant and make a start.
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Evening Star, Issue 11678, 10 February 1902, Page 6
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188RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK Evening Star, Issue 11678, 10 February 1902, Page 6
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