VALUE OF RAIL CARS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 8

VALUE OF RAIL CARS

MINISTER ENTHUSIASTIC WILL REJUVENATE THE SERVICE [ Per Press Association. J CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 13. The new Minister of Railways, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, is enthusiastic about the advantages likely to be gained in rail travel through extended use iu New Zeaiand of the rail cars. “It is too early to predict. lhe future,” he said to-day, “but [ believe that in the rail car the Government has a means of rejuvenating the railways and enabling the system tn hold its own with other forms of transport, including, in some degree, the competition of air services.” He explained that, with a service de c:ded upon with rail cars it would be possible to give 200.000 miles additional service Io the public at the same cost as the present service, and the department would be slightly to the good. The Minister recently made a journey in an experimental rail car used bv I’he Railway Department, and he staled that the cars would prove very attractive to the public. A* far as practicable the ears would be manufactured at the Hutt Work shops, but the mechanical parts would have tn be imnorted.