VALUE OF RAILWAYS.
THE COUNTRY'S PROSPERITY
FACTOR IN TRANSPORT COSTS. [BY TELEGRAI>H.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] KAWAKAWA, Friday. The opinion that without the railways New Zealand would not prosper was c?:pressed by 'AJr. S. W. Smith, chairman of the Kawakawa Town Board, at a smoke concert tendered to the commerce train party at Kawakawa this evening. Mr. Smith paid j, tribute to the way in which the general manager of the railways, ilr. 11. H. Sterling, had listened to local requests.
Mr. Sterling said it was true that difficulties had arisen in Kawakawa, and he was pleased that these difficulties had been unravelled. They were getting a sympathetic coordination from the people which a business was entitled to from its shareholders. The railways stood as a bulwark against excessive transport costs. Ho wished to express publicly his satisfaction at the way the railways were administered in this district.
Mr. U. Rodie, commercial manager of the railways, said that since joining this train he had found 50 keen supporters of the railways from Auckland. Next February the department would be called upon to transport tho Empire farming delegates under Lord Blcdisloe.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20420, 23 November 1929, Page 14
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187VALUE OF RAILWAYS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20420, 23 November 1929, Page 14
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