DOMINION RAILWAYS
COMPARISONS OVERSEAS P.A. AUCKLAND, Aug. 20. After 12 months’ investigation of the railways in Britain, the United States, and South Africa, the chief civil engineer of the New Zealand Railways, Mr H. C. Lusty, is convinced that the New Zealand system is quite as good as those he saw overseas in relation to the size of population and the resources of this country. Interviewed on his return to-day Mr Lusty said his conclusions would be the subject of an official report, and in the meantime he would express only general observations. The shortage of rolling stock was universal, even America being affected.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26545, 21 August 1947, Page 10
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