DEPARTMENT PLANS RAILWAY STATIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18985, 3 February 1930, Page 13

DEPARTMENT PLANS RAILWAY STATIONS.

MINISTER SAYS TURN OF CHRISTCHURCH WILL COME

“It is one of the first aims of the department to see that the four cities of New Zealand are equipped with railway stations that become their dignity,” said the Hon W. B. Taverner, Minister of Railways, who was in Christchurch yesterday. “ Dunedin already has a fine station, and it is expected that the new building at Auckland will be completed this year. It will be a beautiful structure. The erection of the new station at Wellington will follow the completion of the work on the new goods sheds and yards there. It is considered that two years will be occupied in the building oi the new Wellington station. . This will also be an imposing building, with a ground space as large as that of Auckland. Wellington is badly in need of a new and up-to-date station, for at present everything is all over the. place. The city will welcome the arrival of the new building.” Asked if any further consideration had been given to the provision of a new station at Christchurch the Minister replied that the department was aiming to bring the four principal centres into line. It was impossible owing to the present state of finance to do this work simultaneously, but the turn of Christchurch was coming.