THE RAILWAYS.
SOME SERVICES MAT BE CLOSED DOWN. (press association telegram.) INVERCARGILL, June 2. Replying to a deputation urging the continuation of the Tapanui-Catlins line to-day, the Prime Minister said that the Government could not go in for railway building unless it was sure that the traffic was available. Otherwise it was better to give settlers good roads. He believed, by the way things were going, that instead of running trains half empty, the Government would close down some pf the senvices, and.employ motor lorries to do the work. The Government was concentrating on unfinished works now, such as the Otira tunnel. The line in question was really an extension, but he thought it quite probable that it would bo proceeded with.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17471, 3 June 1922, Page 10
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