RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK
4 EN BALDWIN ENGINES ARRIVE. (By TelesraDb.— Prefp AeswlnttoiU Auckland, May 11. The ten first-class Baldwin railway ;eomotives which were ordered by the few Zealand Government in January ist from Messrs. Burnham, Williams, nd Co., of Philadelphia, are on board lie steamer Invertay, which arrived at ' .uckland last week, and which con tin- 1 ed her voyage to Wellington to-day. lie contract for the manufacture of ' be engines, the Minister of Railways :he Hon. W. H. Herries) pointed out j )-day, ivas completed within the stipuited time, but their arrival in the Do- ' linion was delayed in the first place wing to delay in obtaining shipping pace and by the protracted vnvaee of tie Invertay. The engines will be fitjd up at the Petone Railway Workbops under the superintendence 'of an xpert who has been sent out by the mnufacturers for the purpose, and ho arrived in New Zealand some weeks b;o. The engines, which are oosting 3220 each, will be distributed throughlit the North Island lines as oircum i tances '
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2459, 12 May 1915, Page 7
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174RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2459, 12 May 1915, Page 7
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