TRAIN LOOKS LIKE TORPEDO AMALGAMATION SOUGHT

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1932, Page 7

TRAIN LOOKS LIKE TORPEDO

AMALGAMATION SOUGHT

SPEED ATTAINED IN GERMANY. By Telegraph— Press Assn. —Copyright. Berlin, Dec. 19. A stream-lined train, driven by two 140 horse-power Diesel engines, covered 180 miles from Berlin to Hamburg at an average speed of 76 miles an hour. The train consists of a double coach accommodating 102 passengers. Not even a door knob protrudes from the sides, while the rounded front give" the train a torpedo-like appearance. The “Flying Hamburger,” as the train is called, covered the return trip _to Berlin at an average sped of 90 miles an hour. It touched 94 miles an hour.

GOVERNMENT OF PRAIRIES

SCHEME FOR UNITY REVIVED

MANITOBA PREMIER’S VIEW

PROGRESS ALREADY MADE

By Telegraph—Brew Assn.—Copyright. Winnipeg, Dec. 19.

Talk again of a single Government for the prairies and a revival of the plan to unite Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta under one Parliament came with a statement from the Premier, of Manitoba (Mr. J. Bracken) at the close today of the three-day prairie Premiers’ parley. These meetings are held periodically. “We are endeavouring in the. absence of a single Government for the prairies to accomplish by the conference some of the advantages that might be expected from. the union of all, said Mr. Bracken, who 13 months ago came out definitely in favour of a single .prairie Parliament. Already the prairies have gone a long way toward uniform police protection with the assumption of police duties by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the three provinces. There has been discussion at various times of uniting the universities, health and hospital units, public works and various provincial services.