RAILWAY WORKSHOPS
MACHINERY OBSOLETE AND USELESS. PROPOSED EXPENDITURE JUSTIFIED. PRIME MINISTER PUTS POSITION CLEARLY. (Special to “Chronicle.”) KOKAKO, Oct. 21. Justifying the expenditure and tho proposed expenditure on railway workshops, which expenditure his opponents had criticised, the Prime Minister put tho position plainly before a meeting at Waiotira this morning. “The position,” he said, “is that 60 per cent, of the machinery in these shops is of no use, 30 per cent is from ten to twenty-five years old, and the remaining ten per cent, might be of some value.
“That is the position of the railway shops. No men can give satisfaction with such tools. If everything is brought up-to-date you can ask the men to give you results, but not otherwise.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19435, 22 October 1925, Page 7
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