AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS
POLITICAL iNfiLUENCE DEPRECATED. SIR MARK SHELDON’S CRITICISM. Pres* Association —By Tslegrapb—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 30. Giving evidence before the Royal Commission which is inquiring into the railways, Sir Mark Sheldon, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said that the administration of the railways should be tree from politidSrtnfluence, which at present was exercised to a shocking extent. He instanced the city railway, which tie stated, everyone knew was not being run on business lines, but as a political expedient. The British experts who ore investigating the management of the Australian railways will report on the organisation and running of the passenger and goods traffic, fares, freights, and financial returns, and matters appertaining to the mechanical equipment; also on types of locomotives, rolling stock, and matters affecting the maintenance of the perma.nent way, stations, equipment, and signalling.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19239, 1 August 1924, Page 7
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