RAILWAY WORKSHOPS BEING EXTENDED
[Special To “Northern Advocate ’•'] AUCKLAND. This Day.
To provide for the expansion of rail transport in Now Zealand during the next few years, and to replace rolling stock, which will have to be scrapped in the near future, the Government Railway Workshops at Otahuhu arc at present engaged on a construction programme, which is the largest yet put in hand in the Dominion. It is expected that the work will extend over several years, and that when it is completed a high standard of railway equipment will be attained. At the Hull Valley and Addington Workshops there have also been a large increase in activities. With the development of the chilled beef trade, the department has in hand the construction of 32 additional bogey vans for the carriage of beef of this typo. 18 of those vans having been completed before Christmas.
j The remaining 14 are to be finished Iby the end of March. There will then j be 75 specially fitted waggons for the j conveyance of chilled beef in the Doi minion.
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Northern Advocate, 11 January 1938, Page 6
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