SHORTAGE OF TRUCKS
DEPARTMENT'S EFFORTS COPING WITH DEMAND (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Every possible effort to overcome the shortage of rolling stock was being made, .said the Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, on Saturday, in reply So recent complaints of a shortage of trucks throughout the North Island. During the 1931-1935 period, he claimed, the rate of scrapping of rolling stock h*d been much more rapid than the rate of construction. The department since then had redoubled its efforts, but with the intensification of work came an intensification of demand, so that the department was not getting the full advantage of its increased work.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19880, 6 March 1939, Page 14
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