AUSTRALIA PROSPEROUS
MR. STERLING’S COMMENT SYDNEY TRAFFIC PROBLEM [ Per Frew A’.-sociation. ) AUCKLAND, June 8. Mr H. H. Sterling, former General Manager of the New Zealand Railways, on his return from Australia today, said that conditions there were very prosperous. The development of local industry was making itself felt. Australia had taken on a definite economic nationhood. The most radical change on the immediate horizon in connection with the city traffic in Sydney was that it was fairly universally accepted that the trams had to disappear from tha city streets. The underground transport was being developed, particularly by the construction of the Circular Quay loop to the city railway. This would materially ease the surface congestion on the railways there. The State railways had had a good year and would show a surplus.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19370609.2.79
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 7
Word Count
132AUSTRALIA PROSPEROUS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.