PRODUCE RESULTS DIE
PREMIER ON RAILWAYS THEY ARE STILL THE BEST [From Oue Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, May 28. “ We cannot live by legislation alone. The railways have to produce results or die.” This w*as a striking sentence in the reply of the Prime Minister to a Wairarapa deputation which urged the construction of a tunnel deviation to avoid the present route, which Ministers who attended the deputation admitted was a paralysing handicap on tho district. Mr Sullivan, Minister of Railways, announced a trial trip of the first rail car on Sunday, stating that 160,000 additional. miles could be run through this medium, and the journey from Masterton to Wellington reduced by an hour and a-half. Mr Savage had this in mind when answering the deputation. Ho added, referring to the railways: “ We might live a year or two by driving others out of business, but that is not enough. We must have something up to date. We can produce the best, and I think the railways are still the best.”.
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Evening Star, Issue 22350, 28 May 1936, Page 10
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170PRODUCE RESULTS DIE Evening Star, Issue 22350, 28 May 1936, Page 10
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