RAILWAYS AND AEROPLANES
The “Dominion,” commenting editorially upon the opening of the new railway station at Wellington, made interesting reference to the future of rail,and air transport. It said that thousands of citizens 4 crowded about the new station had their attention diverted from the opening ceremony for a moment by the overhead drone of a new aeroplane nearing the end of a test flight from Auckland to Wellington in the record time of two hours five minutes. Its appearance in a perfect sky seemed almost a challenge to older ways of transport. But, says the ‘■ Dominion, ’ ’ the new station is an answer. Trains will still run, but they will be expected to run faster, more often, and to carry more passengers than ever before. Here and there in the official speeches there was a note of anxiety as to the actual cost of railway improvements throughout the Dominion and prospective returns. If the railway service is brought up and kept up to the standard set by the new station at Wellington, there need be, at any rate, no anxiety about the returns.
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Northern Advocate, 23 June 1937, Page 4
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