RAIL CARS
REJUVENATION OF SERVICE NEW MINISTER ENTHUSIASTIC (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, January 13. The new Minister of Railways (Mr D. G. Sullivan) is enthusiastic about the advantages likely to .be gained in rail travel through the extended use in New Zealand of rail cars. “It is too early to predict the future,” Mr Sullivan said to-day, “ but I believe that in the rail car the Government has a means of rejuvenating the railways and enabling the system to bold its own with other forms of transport, including, in some degree, the competition of air services.”
The Minister explained that with the service decided upon with rail cars it would be possible to give 200,000 miles additional service to the public at the same cost as the present service, and the department would be slightly to the good.
Mr Sullivan said he recently made a journey in the experimental rail car used by the Raihvays Department, and he believed 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 imported.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22778, 14 January 1936, Page 10
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192RAIL CARS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22778, 14 January 1936, Page 10
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