LIGHT RAILWAYS

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 3 August 1920, Page 6

LIGHT RAILWAYS

STATEMENT BY PRIME

MINISTER

The Prime Minister, replying on Friday to a question by Mr J. A. Young (Wtiikato), the Prime Minister, stated that at the request of Now Zealand Chambers of Commerce ancl local bodies, lie got Mr Vickerman to report to him as to the possibility of getting light railways in France. Mr Vickerman reported that he could not recommend the purchase of second-hand lines at the prices asked, as it would be much letter to buy new material. The French Government took very great exception to the lines being lifted, and the British Government, therefore, handed them over to France. Ro far as Canada, was concerned, Canada had lent the Allies many Miles of railway lines, lifting the lines and sleepers, and sending both them and the rolling-stock to the Western, front. That material, when the Avar came to an end, was sent Ifick to Canada; and that, he supposed, was the material that Sir G. ■"Wilson had referred to the other day at the Farmers' Union Conference. Tie had lived at Home in the same house with General Botha, and he Mas sure that he would have heard about it if there had been any purchase of light lines in Franco by the South African Government He did not think anything of the sort had tiiken place.' He would Iks very pleased that the building of _ light linos should be. gone on with in tlii.s country, and legislation to facilitate it would bo placed before Parliament at an early date.

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