THE RAILWAY SERVICE
OFFICERS TO GO ABROAD. STUDYING OUTSIDE CONDITIONS (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 27. One of the recommendations of the Railway Commission was that officers from the railway service should go abroad to obtain an insight into many phases of railway operations. On Friday Mr James Mason, a member of the Railway Board of Management, and Mr P. R. Angus, Locomotive Engineer, will leave by the steamer Maheno for Sydney, ?n route for South Africa to investigate railway matters there. They will be absent for several months, and on their return will present a report to the Minister. Mr Mason will study matters of general administration, while Mr Angus, who up to the present has been Locomotive Engineer at Greymouth, will look into the technical questions. South Africa has been selected as it presents features analogous to those existing in the Dominion, inasmuch as the South African system is State-owned and has the 3ft 6in gauge. Two other officers from the civil engineering and traffic branches are to be sent abroad also, and Mr E. J. Guinness. Controller of Stores, is to study the working c.f railway stores in New South Wales. While Mr Mason is absent, Mr A. W. Mouat, District Traffic Manager at Auckland. will be an acting-member of the Railway Board.
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Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 8
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217THE RAILWAY SERVICE Southland Times, Issue 19461, 28 January 1925, Page 8
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