RAILWAY WORKSHOPS.

Evening Star, Issue 21619, 15 January 1934, Page 9

RAILWAY WORKSHOPS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Being a visitor to your city fairly often, I have. made a point of study from an engineer’s point of view of the Hillside Workshops. For the life of me I cannot' understand why such a short-sighted policy was instituted. There are three Government workshops in the South Island, and I still maintain those of Hillside should be the chief shops as they are the most central, with _ Addington and Invercargill as relieving shops. Instead of transferring carpenters, engineers, and plumbers from Hillside. th*> local men should have been retained and men from the two other shops transferred to Hillside. I am convinced is the best policy, and no saving to the Government will take place until that is done. Enlarge Hillside shops still further, and house every branch of the Government departments

there, and work the others as repair shops. It is up to the members in the south to see that that is done. As it now stands, every little repair to be done has to go to the extreme end of the South Island. Distance alone makes the work more costly. Return the already transferred men to Dunedin. It can be done by degrees, and will be worth while.—l am, etc,, Engineer. January 15.