EAST COAST RAILWAY
PASSENGER AND FREIGHT CHARGES MORE COSTLY THAN HY SEA (Uri’And Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. During liis reply to a deputation today Mr J. G. Coates mentioned in connection with representation recently made for the completion of the South Island Alain Trunk, that it is 100 mile more by sett and train via Pieton to Christchurch than by' 1 sea to Lyttelton. A lirst-class passage, without sleeping accommodation, would cost, 17/1 more than the present and goods would run into €2 per ton.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 September 1925, Page 4
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86EAST COAST RAILWAY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 17 September 1925, Page 4
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