Better Discipline, Service On Railways

Northern Advocate, 20 July 1938, Page 3

Better Discipline, Service On Railways

-MR. SULLIVAN

I Per Press Association. Copyright .] CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. “There were more main line and passenger train derailments under the Railways Board than there have been under my administration, and I can produce figures at the right time,” said the Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, replying at Rangiom on Monday evening to what he describes as the “unkind references of the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon. A. Hamilton, to recent derailments and accidents.. He declared that 23,000 railwaymen very properly resented the foolish charges in Parliament of Mr W. P. Endean, M.P., and Mr S. G Smith, M.P., that they w r ere due to lack of discipline. The efficiency of the railways was being improved. More Derailments Under Board Control. Figures would prove that the running stall was giving better and more efficient service than ever in the past. After criticising the references by Mr Hamilton, Mr SulliVan askd whether the greater number of derailments under the board was due to lack of discipline and were the frightful accidents that had been happening in England, South Africa and the United Stales also due to lack of discipline? “I repeat, there is more discipline in the service today than there ever has been. More efficiency and better service are given to the public than ever before in the whole history of the railways,” said Mr Sullivan.