RAILWAY AND ROAD TRAFFIC

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1929, Page 11

RAILWAY AND ROAD TRAFFIC

rBOBMaI-S. BElSfi SOIVBD. “They have a. hard row to hoe,” said Mr; W; Healy on Saturday night when referring at the railwaymen’s, gathering- to the fight; being put up against competition by- motor tr.aflic;. Personally, he did not think there was a man, even Mr; Sterling), wli.o could make the railways pay-, A more optimistic note was sounded by Mr, S;. G. Smith, M.P. He believed it could be said;, to-day that railways •were,- nxeetiij" the new difficulties in. a very successful manner. From the manager downwards every officer was doing his best to, meet, problems as. they arose. In. his in the. years, to come- the railways would meet th® competition successfully. H® congratulated Mr. P. H. Hartland, district traffic, manager at Wanganui, on suiting public convenience by putting on a train, at New Plymouth to leave at 1.50 p.m. It was a good sex 1 - vice and a great convenience,, and he had always, heard well of it. H® urged the public to support the enterprise, Mr. Hartland considered the relations between railwaymen and business men were better- than they had ever been. Years ago they had had a hard row to hoe at times, but to-day they were out looking for business, and' they musthave it. It was the duty of. the commercial department of tlxe railway to interview business men to try to keep business that might otherwise slip. away. It was realised road traffic was a big, factor, but the railway was always devoting a great deal of time to endeavours to make its services better and better.