FUTURE OF RAILWAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20622, 22 July 1930, Page 10

FUTURE OF RAILWAYS.

MR. STERLING'S OPTIMISM.

appeal made to officers.

LOYALTY AND CO-OPERATION.

[B? TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Monday. An optimistic view of tlio future of tlio railway services was expressed by the General Manager of the Railways, Mr. IT. IL Sterling, when speaking at the annual smoko concert of the Wellington branch of the Railway Officers' Institute. Mr. Sterling expressed the opinion that the railway organisation was on tho point of rendering greater service to the community than it had ever rendered before. This would depend to a great extent on tho loyalty of tho railway servants, thoso who were working at outposts of tho service. When railway officers had ideals and pursued them wholeheartedly they would increase in their value to the community. It was this last point which in the end governed their wages. Jn urging them fo do all they could to eliminate waste, Mr. Sterling said they had to realise that waste and wages came from the same fund. Loyalty should be the principle from one end of the service to the other. It would bring thein to the position when they could stand before tho peoplo of New Zealand and tell them that they had given them service. When they had done that they would have done all that could be expected of them.

The railway service liad given in the past, was giving now, and would in future give, greater service to the community. Tho work they had done was about to bear fruit and tho clouds would roll away. The Minister of Labour, Hon. R. G. Smith, said:—"l believe that if the scheme we have in view is carried into effect it will do more for the country, do more to stimulate our industries and indirectly bring moro business for tho railway, than any other measure that could be proposed. No man has given more serioii3 thought to making both ends meet than tho present Prime Minister. If that complete co-operation between the people exists, as it does between the railway servants, then there will be no country in the world which will get ahead faster or moro surely than New Zealand.''