A BRIGHT FUTURE
USE OF RAIL=CARS MINIS T Ell E N TTIUSIAS TIC (By Telegrauli— Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, 13th January. Tho new Minister of Railways (the lion. D. G. Sullivan) is enthusiastic about the advantages likely to he gained in rail travel through the extended use in New Zealand of rail-cars. “It is too early to predict the future,” said Mr Sullivan to-day, “but 1 believe that iu the rail-car the Government has the means of rejuvenating the railways and enabling the system to hold its own with other forms of transport, including in some degree the competition of air services.”
He explained that with the service decided upon with rail-cars it would he possibl etc give 203,000 miles’ additional service to the public at the same cost' as the present service, and the Department would be slightly to the good. The Minister recently made a journey in the experimental rail-car used by the Railway Department, and he stated that the cars would prove very attractive to the public. As far as practicable the cars would be manufactured at the Hutt workshops, but the mechanical parts would have to be inmorted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 January 1936, Page 3
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191A BRIGHT FUTURE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 January 1936, Page 3
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