USE OF OIL BURNING LOCOMOTIVES: SOUTH ISLAND CLAIM
[SPECIAL TO STAR] WESTPORT, This Day. . Advice that the Government did not intend to convert coal-burning railway engines to oil-burners in the South Island was given to the annual conference of the South Island Local Bodies’ Association yesterday in a letter from the Minister of Railways (Mr R. Semple). The letter was read during the discussion of a remit from the Port Chalmers Borough Council, urging that representations should be made to the Minister of Railways for the early introduction of oil-burning locomotives on South Island lines. Messrs E. C. Bathurst and H. A. Harrison (Ashburton), supporting the remit, said that many fires had been caused by sparks from engines, and valuable crops had been destroyed. ~ , x , The conference decided to support the remit and ask the Minister to provide oil-burning locomotives at the earliest opportunity.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1948, Page 2
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