ROLLING STOCK SHORTAGE.
MR SULLIVAN REPLIES TO COMPLAINTS. NEW PLYMOUTH, March 5. Every possible effort to overcome the shortage of rolling stock was being made said the Minister of Railways (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) on Saturday in reply to recent complaints of a shortage of trucks throughout the North Island. During 1931-35, he said, the rate of the scrapping of rolling stock had been much more rapid than the rate of • construction. The department since then had redoubled efforts, but with the intensification of work came an.intensification of demand, so that the department was not getting full advantage of its increased work.
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Western Star, 7 March 1939, Page 2
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