NEW STRATFORD LINE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 6

NEW STRATFORD LINE

OPENING FOE TRAFFIC STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN (Per Press Association.). WELLINGTON, this day. “Although it will be some time before the newly : laidi portion of fhij, recently opened Stratford-Main Trunk railway will be ready for taking ovor by the Railway Department, the Government Railways Board lias decided to work goo,ds traffic over the new route as from Monday, December 12,” stated Mr. H. 11. Sterling, chairman of Ijfyp board, in a statement to the press to-day. “Before the new line is ready to bo worked a§ an. integral part of the system pnder , the direct, control of the board, a considerable, amount of work will have to be do.n,e by. the Railway Department .at the Stratford and Qkahukura, juncand thprp is still niucl), to, be done all the Diibljo, Works secfwV of the line. “In conclusion,” said Mr. Sterling, “I cannot too strongly emphasise that the completion of the line was regarded by the board as being a work that could be justified only if the line, wlien completed, were to be assured of full sup- '< port by the public, and the board trusts that as the line is now available for the transport of goods, the people, concerned will see that the fullest'possible use fa made of it,”